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Joseph Heller

"Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one of whom?" "Every one of whom do you think?" "I haven't any idea." "Then how do you know they aren't?" "Because..." Clevinger sputtered, and turned speechless with frustration. Clevinger really thought he was right, but Yossarian had proof, because strangers he didn't know shot at him with cannons every time he flew up into the air to drop bombs on them, and it wasn't funny at all."

-- Joseph Heller

#Thinking Quotes #Frustration Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.”
“The average person expels flatulence 15 times each day!”
“Invest in vanity. Buy stocks in high-profile companies whose products are designed to make you feel good and look good.”
“I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.”
“Now I'm back in LA, it's high time to finish a little something I've been working on...”

Source : Edgarwright @edgarwright, twitter.com. October 2, 2013.
“Neither Jewish morality nor Jewish tradition can be used to disallow terror as a means of war,”
“I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into human emotion at those times of life when it's so important. And to see and witness those times of grief and love and loss and all those things was such a huge privilege, both in my own personal life, but it also, I think, spills over into my writing. I think the one thing that most novelists have is some degree of emotional intelligence, and if you don't have that, then perhaps you might struggle to be a novelist, because that has to come out somewhere.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.”

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