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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
...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue without the liberty, the freedom to go where one chose if one was held back by one's color? No, I preferred the Eiffel Tower, which made no promises."~ Josephine Baker, once she had seen the Eiffel Tower Josephine Baker
Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters."Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a room with a madman sorcerer. That clarified things a little. Neal Stephenson
The Departure Aria, a very important and romantic song - This damn door sticks, This damn door sticks. It sticks no matter what I do. It is marked pull and indeed I am pulling. Perhaps it should be marked 'push'? Terry Prachett
Neal A. Maxwell quote: "If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's..."
If the kingdom of God is not first, it doesn't matter what's second. Neal A. Maxwell
My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad. Jack Kerouac
Jack London quote: "Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but..."
Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. Jack London
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there. Norman Vincent Peale
...when these matters are discussed by practical people, the standard of justice depends on the equality of power to compel... Thucydides
The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before. C. S. Lewis
James A. Michener quote: "For this is the journey that men make, to find themselves. If..."
For this is the journey that men make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much what else they find. James A. Michener
The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in parenthesis John Irving
to one whose elastic and vigorous thoughts keep pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not the labors and attitudes of men, morning is when I am awake and there is dawn in me. Henry David Thoreau
Robert Frank quote: "Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of..."
Above all, life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference Robert Frank
I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it). Umberto Eco

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