Source: Making Money
“Insanity is hereditary. You can catch it from your kids.”
“Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one.”
Address to the Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Illinois. (21 July 1952); published in Speeches of Adlai Stevenson (1952)
“I'll catch you angel, i'll always catch you.”
Source: Reflected in You
"Tom Wolfe's Failed Optimism" (1977), Beginning To See the Light: Pieces of a Decade (1981)
Context: My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries. I learned that lesson well (though it came too late to wholly supplant certain critical opposing influences, like comic books and rock-and-roll). Yet the modernists’ once-subversive refusal to be gulled or lulled has long since degenerated into a ritual despair at least as corrupt, soft-minded, and cowardly — not to say smug — as the false cheer it replaced. The terms of the dialectic have reversed: now the subversive task is to affirm an authentic post-modernist optimism that gives full weight to existent horror and possible (or probable) apocalyptic disaster, yet insists — credibly — that we can, well, overcome. The catch is that you have to be an optimist (an American?) in the first place not to dismiss such a project as insane.
context (11) “Come Outside and Say That”
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
“A book is a bottle thrown into the sea on which this label should be attached: Catch as catch can.”
Un livre est une bouteille jetée en pleine mer sur laquelle il faut coller cette étiquette: attrape qui peut.
Page 93.
Journal d'un poète (1867)
His reaction after seeing a replay of New England Patriots WR Julian Edelman's miracle catch in the 4th quarter with three Atlanta Falcons' defenders around him after the throw was originally tipped and bounced off of a defender's leg in the 4th quarter of Super Bowl LI.
2010s
calls the Once-ler.
He lets something fall.
"It's a Truffula Seed.
It's the last one of all!
You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds.
And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs.
Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care.
Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.
Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack.
Then the Lorax
and all of his friends
may come back."
The Lorax (1971)
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