paranoid

[Ben Zimmer]

I checked a couple of closed-caption files on the subtitle site
subscene.com (as Garson has probably done as well), but I didn't see
anything vaguely like the line in question. Could it have appeared
visually -- as graffiti or something?

--bgz


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:
>
> I am about 81% certain that I verified this point--but I can't find my pertinent notes.
> Somebody is always sneaking into my office and hiding my notes . . . .
>
> --Charlie
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> This question makes me nervous -- has anyone actually confirmed that this quote
> appears in the film?  I'm not sure whether the Dictionary of Modern Proverbs verified
> it, or relied on the Yale Book of Quotations citation, which may have come from a
> secondary source.
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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>
> Victor Steinbok wrote way back on May 8, 2011
> >
> > 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.
>
> Victor, Fred, Charlie or anyone: Could you tell me who speaks this
> line in the film Catch-22 and when it is spoken ( approximate elapsed
> time from the beginning of the film). Thanks.
>
> > But is it in the book (1961, but written over about 8 years)? Because, if it
> > isn't...
>
> I have not seen any evidence that the line is in the book Catch-22.
> Would be happy to see such evidence (i.e. page number and edition).
>
> Garson

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