Favourite Quotes

[ssk7882 <skelkins@attbi.com>]

Cassie wrote:

> There's a thread going on the main list about favourite quotes from 
> the Harry Potter books, so I thought I should start a thread about 
> favourite quotes from....anything! 

I'm game!

I've always been hopelessly partial to this exchange, from 
_Catch-22._

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"What the hell are you getting so upset about?" he asked her
bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement.  "I thought you 
didn't believe in God."

"I don't," she sobbed, bursting violently into tears.  "But the
God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God.
He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be."

Yossarian laughed and turned her arms loose.  "Let's have a little
more religious freedom between us," he proposed obligingly.  "You 
don't believe in the God you want to, and I won't believe in the
God I want to.  Is that a deal?"

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I am often reminded of this one, for some strange reason, while 
discussing canon on the main list.  ;->


Elkins