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“They’re not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?��
“Who else will go?”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Nobody would have anything to do with him. He began to drop things and to trip. He had a shy and hopeful manner in each new contact, and he was always disappointed. Because he NEEDED a friend so desperately, he never found one.”
― Joseph Heller

“Appleby was as good at shooting crap as he was at playing Ping-Pong, and he was as good at playing Ping-Pong as he was at everything else. Everything Appleby did, he did well. Appleby was a fair-haired boy from Iowa who believed in God, Motherhood, and the American Way of Life, without ever thinking about any of them, and everybody who knew him liked him.

"I hate that son of a bitch," Yossarian growled.”
― Joseph Heller

“​Dharma or Ethics and Morals are the Fundamental Set of Rules created for those who want to Play the Game, by those who are Inside the Game.”
― Vineet Raj Kapoor

“Sure, there’s a catch,�� Doc Daneeka replied. “Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn’t really crazy.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“He smiled ostentatiously to show himself reasonable and nice. "I'm not saying that to be cruel and insulting," he continued with cruel and insulting delight.”
― Joseph Heller

“How much older can you be at your age? A half minute before that you were stepping into high school, and an unhooked brassiere was as close as you ever hoped to get to Paradise. Only a fifth of a second before that you were a small kid with a ten-week summer vacation that lasted a hundred thousand years and still ended too soon. Zip! They go rocketing by so fast.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“White males can't win these days - if they have something, they're "privileged" and if they want something, they're displaying "entitlement.”
― Stewart Stafford

“We anticipate Time, and welcome it when birth comes in the door, then we hate Time and curse it, when death exits the door.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Of course you're dying. We're all dying. Where the devil else do you think you're heading?”
― Joseph Heller

“These days about the worst job you can have is be a US military man. It's so shameful. You're so expensive, yet so completely useless. You know you can't fuck with Russia because they'll just start blowing nukes up for shits and giggles. And you can fuck with China because they probably have a shitton of biological weapons stashed in every Chinatown to take out most US population very, very quickly. At least that’s what I would do, and THEY are a lot smarter than I am. So you keep busy and pretend to be useful by killing Arabs in caves and shit, cuz that seems like a pretty low risk adventure. but... even that's gonna come back and bite you in the Ass eventually... these things usually do...”
― Dmitry Dyatlov

“A term came to her that they used on occasion at the shelter: the double bind...They used the expression in much the same way that they would use a term like catch-22.”
― Chris Bohjalian, The Double Bind

“The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite.”
― George Ainslie