Yossarian 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.
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Sadly, schools deal in the sale and exchange of knowledge, not wisdom."
~ "The Hole
Tags: insightful
Living a good life is like flipping pancakes. If you hesitate, it splatters all over the place.
Matt SimpsonTags: life insightful living metaphor
Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.
Mark Z. DanielewskiTags: insightful darkness horror house-of-leaves
Adversity is only yet another means to remind us of 'How Truly Awsome We All Are'!
W.O. WainwrightTags: inspirational insightful educational children-s humane reaffirming
I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not.
Sherman AlexieTags: humor inspirational insightful insult
That's the big mistake a lot of people make when they wonder how soldiers can put their lives on the line day after day or how they can fight for something they may not believe in. Not everyone does. I've worked with soldiers on all sides of the political spectrum; I've met some who hated the army and others who wanted to make it a career. I've met geniuses and idiots, but when all is said and done,we do what we do for one another. For friendship. Not for country, not for patriotism, not because we're programmed killing machines, but because of the guy next to you. You fight for your friend, to keep him alive, and he fights for you, and everything about the army is built on this simple premise.
Nicholas SparksTags: insightful
It's hard to be nice when the rest of the world is so mean.
Sarah DessenTags: insightful
A mere redrawing of borders, a change in governments, those things can never faze a Jewess with a good supply of hand wipes in her bag.
Michael ChabonTags: insightful humorous
I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed.
David SedarisTags: insightful direct
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