“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.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“But for what purpose was the earth formed?" asked Candide. "To drive us mad," replied Martin.”
― Candide
― Candide
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.”
― The Green Mile
― The Green Mile
“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
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