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• It is the anonymous "they," the enigmatic "they" who are in charge. Who is "they"? I don't know. Nobody knows. Not even "they" themselves.

  Joseph Heller

  Nobody Knows, Knows, Enigmatic

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.603, Simon and Schuster

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• I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.

  Joseph Heller

  Roots, Looks, Way

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You wouldn’t be normal if you were never afraid. Even the bravest men experience fear. One of the biggest jobs we all face in combat is to overcome fear.

  Joseph Heller

  Jobs, Men, Overcoming

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Greek, Alive

  Joseph Heller (2000). “Picture This: A Novel”, p.118, Simon and Schuster

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• If character is destiny, the good are damned.

  Joseph Heller

  Character, Destiny, Ifs

  Joseph Heller (1997). “God Knows”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is highest in the world, will last as long as...the frog?

  Joseph Heller

  Fighting, Men, Years

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

  Joseph Heller

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

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• Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.

  Joseph Heller

  Innocence, States, Born

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• But how can one be warm alone?

  Joseph Heller

  Bible, Ecclesiastes, Warm

  Joseph Heller (1997). “God Knows”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.

  Joseph Heller

  Disappointment, Envy, Achieve

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• There was only one catch and that was catch 22

  Joseph Heller

  Catch 22 Important, Yossarian

  Catch-22 ch. 5 (1961).

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• I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.

  Joseph Heller

  Marriage, Children, Wife

  "Good As Gold".

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• Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.

  Joseph Heller

  Unhappy, Blame, Given

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.387, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)

  Joseph Heller

  Endurance

  Joseph Heller (1974). “Something Happened”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• ... there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

  Joseph Heller

  Strong, People, Madness

  Joseph Heller (1997). “God Knows”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.

  Joseph Heller

  Business, Crazy, Work

  Joseph Heller (1974). “Something Happened”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.

  Joseph Heller

  War, Broke, Catch 22 Important

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

  Joseph Heller

  Children, War, Parent

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Be glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die.

  Joseph Heller

  Alive, Catch 22 Important, Glad

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.171, Simon and Schuster

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• I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.

  Joseph Heller

  Strong, Want, Misgivings

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody is as unstable as water.

  Joseph Heller

  Water, Unstable

  Joseph Heller (1997). “God Knows”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing.

  Joseph Heller

  World, Used, Feels

  Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. I'm cold,' Snowden said. 'I'm cold.

  Joseph Heller

  Fall, Men, Fire

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.404, Simon and Schuster

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• I’m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I’m cold.' 'You’re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You’re going to be all right.' 'I’m cold,' Snowden said again in a frail, childlike voice. 'I’m cold.' 'There, there,' Yossarian said, because he did not know what else to say. 'There, there.' 'I’m cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I’m cold.' 'There, there. There, there.

  Joseph Heller

  Kids, Voice, Cold

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.563, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Running, Responsibility, Negative

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.414, Simon and Schuster

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