01c. 1961 ADAnd he knew something else as a social evolutionist that he might stress someday in his 'Every Change Is for the Worse' should he ever find time to write it: Gold knew that the most advanced and penultimate stage of a civilization was attained when chaos masqueraded as order, and he knew we were already there.Joseph Heller / quote ↗
02c. 1961 ADHe woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.Joseph Heller / quote ↗
03c. 1961 ADThe important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.Joseph Heller / quote ↗
04c. 1961 ADNobody would have anything to do with him. He began to drop things and to trip. He had a shy and hopeful manner in each new contact, and he was always disappointed. Because he NEEDED a friend so desperately, he never found one.Joseph Heller / quote ↗
05c. 1961 ADHe was pinched perspinngly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions to problems he was unwilling to dismiss as unsolvable. He was never without misery, and never without hope.Joseph Heller / quote ↗
06c. 1961 ADThere is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.Joseph Heller / quote ↗
07c. 1961 ADYossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed.'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agreed.Yossarian saw it clearly in all its spinning reasonableness. There was an elliptical precision about its perfect pairs of parts that was graceful and shocking, like good modern art, and at times Yossarian wasn't quite sure he saw it at all, just the way he was never quite sure about good modern art or about the flies Orr saw in Appleby's eyes. he had Orr's word to take for Appleby's eyes.Joseph Heller / quote ↗
08c. 1961 ADMaybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?" "I do," Dunbar told him. "Why?" Clevinger asked. "What else is there?Joseph Heller / quote ↗
09c. 1961 ADSuccess and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs divorce fornication bullying travel meditation medication depression neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.Joseph Heller / quote ↗
10c. 1961 ADFrankly I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.Joseph Heller / quote ↗
11c. 1961 ADThere was only one catch and that was Catch-22 which specified the concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.Joseph Heller / quote ↗
12c. 1961 ADDestiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.Joseph Heller / quote ↗
