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Someone had to do something sometime. every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

-Joseph Heller

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Someone Had To Do Something Sometime. Every

Joseph Heller

Someone had to do something sometime. every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling them all.

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Being a victim doesn't take much. there are built-in excuses for failure. built-in excuses for being miserable. built-in excuses for being angry all the time. no reason to trying to be happy; it's not possible. you're a victim. victim of what? well, you're a victim of derision. well, you're a victim of america. you're a victim of america's past, or you're a victim of religion. you're a victim of bigotry, of homophobia, whatever. you're a victim of something. the democrats got one for you. if you want to be a victim, call 'em up.

Things break all the time. glass and dishes and fingernails. cars and contracts and potato chips. you can break a record, a horse, a dollar. you can break the ice. there are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. day breaks, waves break, voices break. chains can be broken. so can silence, and fever... promises break. hearts break.

I know only two words of american slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. i think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

When you're a victim, you automatically have a built-in excuse for failure. when you are a victim, it's always somebody else's fault. when you're a victim, success is not possible. when you are a victim of something, you are acknowledging that you are as far as you're gonna get, and you can't get any further, because there are more powerful forces arrayed against you than the force of yourself against it.

[t]hro this air, this ocean, and this earth, all nature quick, and bursting into birth. above, how high progressive life may go? around how wide? how deep extend below? vast chain of being! which from god began, ethereal essence, spirit, substance, man, beast, bird, fish, insect! what no eye can see, no glass can reach! from infinite to thee! from thee to nothing.... from natures chain whatever link you strike, tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.... all are but parts of one stupendous whole: whose body nature is, and god the soul.

Somewhere somebody must have some sense. men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. and it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. and you do that by love.

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