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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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8.66 Joseph Heller 1923—<br />

<strong>The</strong>re was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own<br />

safety in the face <strong>of</strong> dangers that were real and immediate was the process <strong>of</strong> a rational mind...Orr<br />

would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them.<br />

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.<br />

‘Catch-22’ (1961) ch. 5<br />

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity<br />

thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.<br />

‘Catch-22’ (1961) ch. 9.<br />

8.67 Lillian Hellman 1905-84<br />

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashions.<br />

Letter to John S. Wood, 19 May 1952, in ‘US Congress Committee Hearing on Un-American<br />

Activities’ (1952) pt. 8, p. 3546<br />

8.68 Helvètius (Claude Arien Helvètius) 1715-71<br />

L’èducation nous faisait ce que nous sommes. Education made us what we are.<br />

‘De l’esprit’ (1758) ‘Discours 3’ ch. 30<br />

8.69 Felicia Hemans 1793-1835<br />

<strong>The</strong> boy stood on the burning deck<br />

Whence all but he had fled;<br />

<strong>The</strong> flame that lit the battle’s wreck<br />

Shone round him o’er the dead.<br />

‘Casabianca’<br />

<strong>The</strong> stately homes <strong>of</strong> England,<br />

How beautiful they stand!<br />

Amidst their tall ancestral trees,<br />

O’er all the pleasant land.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Homes <strong>of</strong> England’<br />

8.70 John Heming 1556-1630 and Henry Condell d. 1627<br />

Well! it is now public, and you will stand for your privileges we know: to read, and censure.<br />

Do so, but buy it first. That doth best commend a book, the stationer says.<br />

First Folio Shakespeare (1623) preface<br />

Who, as he was a happy imitator <strong>of</strong> Nature, was a most gentle expresser <strong>of</strong> it. His mind and<br />

hand went together: And what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce<br />

received from him a blot.<br />

First Folio Shakespeare (1623) preface<br />

8.71 Ernest Hemingway 1899-1961

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