"All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive."
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"Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours."
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"I never even realized I was Jewish until I was practically grown up. Or rather, I used to feel that everybody in the world was Jewish, which amounts to the same thing."
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"If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?"
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"Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours."
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"Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective."
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"If character is destiny, the good are damned."
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"The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon."
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"Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)"
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"I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages."
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""Surely so many countries can't all be 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.""
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"As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. There were many principles in which Clevinger believed passionately. He was crazy."
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"Erogenous zones are either everywhere or nowhere."
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"Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for."
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"I think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy"
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"I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'"
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"After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since."
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"Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising."
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"The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors."
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"mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow."
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