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"The CEO of EBay has people following me!" it sounds so ridiculous that I would immediately think the person telling me that has paranoid delusions but it was t
by solotronics 6y ago
"The CEO of EBay has people following me!" it sounds so ridiculous that I would immediately think the person telling me that has paranoid delusions but it was true.
- stx 6y agoThats the thing. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they aren't out to get you." - Joseph Heller. Thanks to graton for the correction below.
- graton 6y ago“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.” ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22 Published (1961) before Kurt Cobain (and myself) was born.
- stx 6y agoThanks for the correction. I roughly knew the quote and when I googled it Kurt Cobain came back all over the place.
- Joeboy 6y agoWhile it definitely predates Nirvana, it doesn't appear in Catch-22.
- nkurz 6y agoThat's a bold claim considering how many webpages there are claiming that it comes from Catch 22: https://www.google.com/search?q=heller+catch+22+%22paranoid https://www.google.com/search?q=heller+catch+22+%22paranoid. On the other hand, my attempts to search for the word "paranoid" in the book on Amazon turn up nothing. And there is a semi-authoritative page that makes the same claim that you do, saying that the closest he found is a quote about a "persecution complex": https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/09/paranoid/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/09/paranoid/ Do you have more info?
- Nition 6y agoThe previous user is correct, that quote isn't in Catch-22. Nor is any similar sentence. If multiple sources are saying it is, they must be getting the idea from each other.
- nogabebop23 6y agonit - this is not a Cobain quote, rather Heller from Catch-22.