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No one who ever wants praise will be satisfied with praise, the person who wants love cannot be satisfied with love. No want is ever fulfilled. And therefore I still don't know whether it is better to fear God and keep His commandments or to curse God and die.

— Joseph Heller God Knows (1984)

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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?"

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

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