> How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him – he has known a fear beyond every other. —Chapter 19

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"I'm going to live forever or die trying" Yossarian in Joseph Heller's _Closing Time_ and _Catch 22_
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