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There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

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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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That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

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There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind…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.

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Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.

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Born: May 1, 1923
Died: December 12, 1999 (aged 76)
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