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  1. J.D. Salinger _ Franny and Zooey

    Then, as though he had suddenly become exhausted-or, rather, depleted by the demands made on him by a world greedy for the fruit of his intellect-he began to massage the side of his face with the flat of his hand, removing, with unconscious crassness, a bit of sleep from one eye.
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  2. J.D. Salinger _ Franny and Zooey

    I'm sick to death of being the heavy in everybody's life.
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  3. J.D. Salinger _ Franny and Zooey

    As a matter of simple logic, there's no difference at all, that I can see, between the man who's greedy for material treasure -or even intellectual treasure- and the man who's greedy for spiritual treasure. As you say, treasure's treasure, God damn it, and it seems to me that ninety percent of all the world-hating saints in history were just as acquisitive and unattractive, basically, as the rest of us are.
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  4. J.D. Salinger _ Franny and Zooey

    It isn't just Wally. It could be a girl, for goodness' sake. I mean if he were a girl - somebody in my dorm, for example, - he'd have been painting scenery in some stock company all summer. Or bicycled through wales. Or taken an apartment in New York and worked for a magazine or an advertising company. It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know, not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid, necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much as everybody else, only in a different way.
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