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• where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

  Joseph Heller

  Yesteryear, Snowden

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it. She did not understand Yossarian's lust; but she was willing to take is word for it.

  Joseph Heller

  Men, Lust, Needs

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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• In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.

  Joseph Heller

  People, Brain

  "Catch-22". 50th Anniversary Edition,

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• Erogenous zones are either everywhere or nowhere.

  Joseph Heller

  Body, Zone

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• Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.

  Joseph Heller

  Discovery, May, Dread

  Joseph Heller (1974). “Something Happened”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• "Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for." "Anything worth living for," said Nately, "is worth dying for." "And anything worth dying for," answered the sacrilegious old man, "is certainly worth living for."

  Joseph Heller

  Country, Men, Dying

  "Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A Critical Edition".

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• The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish.

  Joseph Heller

  Player, Games, Interesting

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy

  Joseph Heller

  Crazy, Thinking, Going Crazy

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• I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Novel

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.109, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• And anything worth dying for

  Joseph Heller

  Military, Dying, Sacrilegious

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Joseph Heller

  Determination, Accomplishment, Rambling

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.

  Joseph Heller

  Crazy, Real, Safety

  Catch-22 ch. 5 (1961).

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• Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

  Joseph Heller

  Luck, Gold, Gorges

  Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

  Joseph Heller

  Order, Worry, Delay

  1961 Catch-22, ch.17.

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• "What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" "We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. "We?" Yossarian cried in surprise. "What do you mean, we? Since when are you on their side?" "If you're going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?" ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted.

  Joseph Heller

  Mean, Sides, Tone

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• I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.

  Joseph Heller

  Real, Miracle, Bangs

  "Catch-22: A Novel".

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• To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

  Joseph Heller

  Ideas, Class, Tennis

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning

  Joseph Heller

  Dark, Night, Knives

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?

  Joseph Heller

  Life, Long, Events

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.

  Joseph Heller

  Taken, Character, Intelligent

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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• If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.

  Joseph Heller

  Divorce, Men, Wife

  Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret

  Joseph Heller

  Regret, Sick, Lust

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one of whom?" "Every one of whom do you think?" "I haven't any idea." "Then how do you know they aren't?" "Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all.

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Frustration, Ideas

  "Catch-22". Book by Joseph Heller, ch. 2, p. 24, 1961.

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• History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a matter of necessity; WHICH men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance. 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, Men

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

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• After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.

  Joseph Heller

  War, Writing, Ideas

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

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