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Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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Joesph Heller, Catch-22

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It’s inhabitants are, as the man once said, “whores, pimps, gamblers, and sons of bitches,” by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, “Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men,” and he would have meant the same thing.

—John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

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“The shell had his number on it.

The blood ran into the ground.”

—John Dos Passos, The Body of an American

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“Let me stumble into/ Not the confession but/

The obsession I begin with now. For you”

—Robert Creely, For Love

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“I used to get a big kick out of saving people’s lives. Now I wonder what the hell’s the point, since they all have to die anyway.”

—Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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“He was told that he should not kill, and he did not kill, until he got into the army. Then he was told to kill, and he killed.”

—Joseph Heller, Catch-22