Friday, August 9, 2013

50 more pages down

Some memorable quotes I came across today while reading Catch-22:


“You know, that might be the answer—to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of.  That’s a trick that never seems to fail.”


“Up to his own ass in the…excruciating dilemma of duty and damnation.”


“He could start screaming inside a hospital and people would at least come running to try to help; outside the hospital they would throw him in prison if he ever started screaming about all the things he felt everyone ought to start screaming about.”


All good lines, but this one was by far my favorite:

“Just for once I’d like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves.  It might give me some confidence in this universe.”  

Some confidence in the universe would be nice.

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