paranoid

[Garson O'Toole]

Here is another potentially interesting unverified match for the
paranoid/paranoiacs variant in Google Books:

The Critic: Volumes 27-28
Thomas More Association - 1968 - Snippet view
By the time that passport is rechecked by the Vietnam Embassy and gets
back here, I may have a couple of months to kill them at Bay Meadows.
It may sound paranoid to assume there are shenanigans there. But even
paranoiacs have enemies. ...

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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> The Yale Book of Quotations has the following three items listed in
> one entry. YBQ credits the second and third items below to Cassellā€™s
> Humorous Quotations
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> Just because youā€™re paranoid doesnā€™t mean they arenā€™t after you.
> Â  Â Catch-22 (motion picture) (1970).
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> Because a person has monomania she need not be wrong about her facts
>   Dorothy L. Sayers, Murder  Must Advertise ch. 16 [1933]
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> Has it ever struck you that when people get persecution mania, they
> usually have a good deal to feel persecuted about?ā€™ā€™
>   C.P.Snow, The Aļ¬€air ch. 11 [1960]
>
>
> Here is a potentially interesting unverified match for the
> paranoid/paranoiacs variant in Google Books:
>
> Esquire: Volume 69
> William S. Burroughs, William S. Burroughs: The Shoaf Collection
> (University of Virginia Library) - 1968 - Snippet view
> Granted that, as Delmore Schwartz remarked when someone accused him,
> justly, of paranoia, "Even paranoiacs have some real enemies." Still I
> can't believe it since 1) there is no evidence, 2) it runs against my
> whole notion of the ...
>
> Volume 69 is dated (1968:Jan-1968:June)
>
> Garson
>
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:48 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I do want to make it clear that the second half of the quote varies--e.g.,
>> the ACLU attribution uses "they aren't watching you".
>>
>> VS-)
>>
>> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:47 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> I am having a moment of doubt--the line is clearly in the movie version of
>>> Catch-22 (1970):
>>>
>>> Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
>>>
>>>
>>> But is it in the book (1961, but written over about 8 years)? Because, if
>>> it isn't...
>>>
>>> Well, just search around--it's credited to everyone from ACLU to Abbie
>>> Hoffman. One credit I did not find: Joseph Heller.
>>>
>>> Oh, and BTW, Rahm Emanuel stole a similar line from Kissinger: Even a
>>> paranoid (or "paranoids") can have enemies (or "has real enemies").
>>>
>>> VS-)
>>>
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