| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 903cbcb | I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life. | joseph-heller yossarian | Joseph Heller | |
| 0c8f63a | So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven? | joseph-heller yossarian catch-22 god new-testament | Joseph Heller | |
| 22790cd | Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur. | joseph-heller courage confidence positive dread | Joseph Heller | |
| 6b79eb5 | "They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?" "Who else will go?" | joseph-heller | Joseph Heller |