"The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?"

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Joseph Heller

#Depression Quotes #Men Quotes #Insane Quotes

“I don't want to be that parent that puts my kids into what I think they should be in, you know what I mean?”
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
“That's the trouble with cookbooks. Like sex education and nuclear physics, they are founded on an illusion. They bespeak order, but they end in tears.”

Source : Anthony Lane (2009). “Nobody's Perfect: Writings from The New Yorker”, p.653, Vintage
“Every time someone in your life dies, you realize you're not invincible and you have to wonder if we're celebrating life or if we're mourning a death.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia.”
“If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.”
“Seek the truth in all fields, and in that search you will need at least three virtues: courage, zest and modesty. The ancients put that thought in the form of a prayer. They said, â€œFrom the cowardice that shrinks from new truth, from the laziness that is content with half truth, from the arrogance that thinks it has all truth â€“ O God of truth, deliver us.”
“Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk.”

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