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Joseph Heller
“But I'm afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees. That is the way the saying goes.”
Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Joseph Heller
“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, Catch-22

Joseph Heller
“In short, he was a dope. He often looked to Yossarian like one of those people hanging around modern museums with both eyes together on one side of a face. It was an illusion, of course, generated by Clevinger's predilection for staring fixedly at one side of a question and never seeing the other side at all.”
Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Joseph Heller
“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.”
Joseph Heller, Catch-22

Joseph Heller
“…[E]veryone knew that sin was evil, and that no good could come from evil. But he did feel good; he felt positively marvellous. Consequently, it followed logically that telling lies and defecting from duty could not be sins. The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalisation, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honour, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice.”
Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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