Quotes About Contradiction

Immediately next door to Yossarian was Havermeyer, who liked peanut brittle and lived all by himself in the two-man tent in which he shot tiny field mice every night with huge bullets from the .45 he had stolen from the dead man in Yossarian's tent.

Oh, don't you worry about that," Yossarian comforted him with a toneless snicker as the engines of the jeeps and ambulance fractured the drowsy silence and the vehicles in the rear began driving away backward.

you have to be insane before they will let you fly no more missions, but the fact that you want to fly no more missions is proof that you are not insane.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.

There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy.

Ideals are good, but people are sometimes not so good.

Chocolate-covered cotton.

Joseph Heller

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

And if that wasn't funny, there were lots of things that weren't even funnier.

A true prince. One of the finest, least dedicated men in the whole world.

Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning for what they never really had.

We found ourselves wanting to hurry time along, which was not in the long run good for our health. Everybody was trapped in this contradiction but nobody ever dared to articulate it.

I became sensitive, or at least hypocritical.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

Contradiction is the seed of conciousness. I knew, from the pain of contradiction, that I was. And what I was.

She had some horses. She had some horses she loved. She had some horses she hated. These were the same horses.

Each human is a complex, contradictory story. Some stories within us have been unfolding for years, others are trembling with fresh life as they peek above the horizon. Each is a zigzag of emotional design and ancestral architecture. All the stories in the earth's mind are connected.

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Storytelling is shaped by two contrary, yet complementary, impulses—one toward brevity, compactness, artful omission; the other toward expansion, amplification, enrichment.

Como isso acontece, você gosta tanto de alguém — ama alguém, talvez — e depois, não muito tempo depois, o que sente é ódio? Um ódio horrível e funesto? Um ódio de vontade de matar? Por quê?

Moving your asshole-mouth & YES SIR I am saying NO MA'AM I am saying.

Life is such a glorious trauma, is it not? - Wrath

the kind of sadness we tolerate because it appears at happy moments