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  1. Joseph Heller _ Catch-22

    What do you do when it rains?"The captain answered frankly. "I get wet."
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  2. Joseph Heller _ Catch-22

    Everyone was always very friendly toward him, and no one was ever very nice; everyone spoke to him, and no one ever said anything.
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  3. Joseph Heller _ Catch-22

    The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.
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  4. Joseph Heller _ Catch-22

    It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian say the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
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  5. Joseph Heller _ Catch-22

    I don't,' she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. 'But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.
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  6. Joseph Heller _ Good as Gold

    All were successful,and felt like failures.Gold no longer pretended to understand the nature of success.Instead,he pretended not to. He knew the components that were necessary:None,or maybe one:Dumb luck
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  7. Joseph Heller _ Catch-22

    If you run into trouble, just tell everybody that the security of the country requires a strong domestic Egyptian-cotton speculating industry.
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  8. Joseph Heller _ Catch-22

    His goading remained gentle. "Rome was destroyed, Greece was destroyed, Persia was destroyed, Spain was destroyed. All great countries are destroyed. Why not yours? How much longer do you really think your own country will last? Forever? Keep in mind that the earth itself is destined to be destroyed by the sun in twenty-five million years or so.
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  9. Joseph Heller _ Catch-22

    the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag of a humpbacked nose that came charging out of his face wrathfully like a Big Ten fullback.
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  10. Joseph Heller _ Catch-22

    He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused or abandoned. How many families hungered for food they could not afford to buy? How many hearts were broken? How many suicides would take place that same night, how many people would go insane? How many cockroaches and landlords would triumph? How many winners were losers, successes failures, rich men poor men? How many wise guys were stupid? How many happy endings were unhappy endings? How many honest men were liars, brave men cowards, loyal men traitors, how many sainted men were corrupt, how many people in positions of trust had sold their souls to blackguards for petty cash, how many had never had souls? How many straight-and-narrow paths were crooked paths? How many best families were worst families and how many good people were bad people?
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  11. Joseph Heller _ Catch-22

    The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. Yossarian
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  12. Joseph Heller _ Catch-22

    He felt awkward because she was going to murder him.
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