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"I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you."

"But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in."

"I only go to mass when somebody asks me, but when I get in trouble I call for a priest."

"If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble."

"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."

"I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits."

"The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one."

"The trouble with the sacred Individual is that he has no significance, except as he can acquire it from others, from the social whole."
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"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to."

"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."

"Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck."

"I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals."

"Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about."

"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
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