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Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

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Feb 19, 2025 01:47PM

“Clausewitz, a dead Prussian, and Norman Angell, a living if misunderstood professor, had combined to fasten the short-war concept upon the European mind. Quick, decisive victory was the German orthodoxy;”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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“SOME DAMNED FOOLISH THING in the Balkans,” Bismarck had predicted, would ignite the next war. The assassination of the Austrian heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, by Serbian nationalists on June 28, 1914, satisfied his condition.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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“To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.”
― Anne Carson, Red Doc>

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“One constant among the elements of 1914—as of any era—was the disposition of everyone on all sides not to prepare for the harder alternative, not to act upon what they suspected to be true.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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“Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August

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