And he knew something else as a social evolutionist that he might stress someday in his 'Every Change Is for the Worse' should he ever find time to write it: Gold knew that the most advanced and penultimate stage of a civilization was attained when chaos masqueraded as order, and he knew we were already there. Joseph Heller
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  1. I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

  2. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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  4. Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.

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