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Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts — and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?

— Joseph Heller

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When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"

The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations (1997)

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.

Catch-22 (1961)

He could never decide whether to furgle them or photograph them, for he had found it impossible to do both simultaneously.

Catch-22 (1961)

Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

Catch-22 (1961)

Outside the hospital the war was still going on. Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

Catch-22 (1961)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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