“"Let someone else get killed!" "Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?" "Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?"”

—  Joseph Heller, book Catch-22

Catch-22 (1961)

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American author 1923–1999

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