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“There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“Surely there can't be so many countries 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 book Catch-22

Source: Catch 22

“You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch 22

“Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”

Joseph Heller book Something Happened

Something Happened (1974)

“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 book Catch-22

Source: Catch 22

“When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“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 book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.”

Joseph Heller book Closing Time

Source: Closing Time

“where are the snowdens of yesteryear?”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Variant: Who is Spain?
Why is Hitler?
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
Source: Catch-22

“I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch 22

“Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?"
"Yes, sir, it has."
"Then why do you do it?"
"To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch 22

“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 book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22

“Rise above principal and do what's right.”

Joseph Heller

“Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.”

Joseph Heller book Catch-22

Source: Catch-22