There was only one catch and that was Catch-22....
("Catch-22")
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But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong.
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The chaplain glanced at the bridge table that served as his desk and saw only the abominable orange-red, pear-shaped, plum tomato he had obtained that same morning from Colonel Cathcart, still lying on its side where he had forgotten it like an indestructible and incarnadine symbol of his own ineptitude.
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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.
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