Maybe A Long Life Does Have To

I Don't Think It's Good To Achieve Too Much At Too Early An Age. What Else Can The Future Give You If You've Already Got All That Your Imagination Has Dreamt Up For You? A Writer Is Only Discovered Once In A Lifetime, And If It Happens Very Early The Impossibility Of Matching That Moment Again Can Have A Somewhat Corrosive Effect On His Personality And Indeed On The Work Itself.

He Was A Self-made Man Who Owed His Lack Of Success To Nobody.

Gold Was Not Altogether Certain What, Anatomically, A Gorge Was, But He Knew That His Was Rising.

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?

Actually There Were Many Officers' Clubs That Yossarian Had Not Helped Build, But He Was Proudest Of The One On Pianosa. It Was A Sturdy And Complex Monument To His Powers Of Determination. Yossarian Never Went There To Help Until It Was Finished; Then He Went There Often, So Pleased Was He With The Large , Fine, Rambling Shingled Building. It Was A Truly Splendid Building, And Yossarian Throbbed With A Mighty Sense Of Accomplishment Each Time He Gazed At It And Reflected That None Of The Work That Had Gone Into It Was His.