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[stx]

Thanks for the correction. I roughly knew the quote and when I googled it Kurt Cobain came back all over the place.

[Joeboy → stx]

While it definitely predates Nirvana, it doesn't appear in Catch-22.

[nkurz → Joeboy]

That'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.

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/

Do you have more info?

[Nition → nkurz]

The 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.