paranoid

[Dan Goncharoff]

I find it interesting that none of the online movie script sites have
the "paranoid" line. A surprising oversight, if it really IS in the
movie.

DanG

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]
>
> 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
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> 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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