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"The years are too short, the days are too long."
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Joseph HellerLet someone else get killed!" — Joseph Heller
"Let someone else get killed!" "Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?" "Well then Id certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldnt I?"
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Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller
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Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is his debut novel Catch-22 (1961), a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least twice, in 1972 and 1975.
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"Vanity. Whats wrong with vanity? It doesnt satisfy."
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"I do know that girls in their early twenties are easy and sweet. (Girls in their late twenties are easier but sad, and that isnt so sweet.) They are easy, I think, because they are sweet, and they are sweet, I think, because they are dumb."
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