Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no differ…

Joseph Heller
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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. ✨ Joseph Heller (1999). Catch-22: A Novel, p.377, Simon and Schuster
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