It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so

J. D. Salinger
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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 only in a different way. ✨ Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger, (p. 19), 1961.
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