Joseph Heller Quotes

• Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

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• All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.

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• There were reviews that were good, a good many that were mixed, and there were reviews that were bad, very bad, almost venomously spiteful, one might be tempted to say (and I am the one that might say it).

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• I used to joke—and it wasn’t much of an exaggeration— that a story I would mail to the New Yorker in the morning would be back with its concise, slighting rejection slip in the afternoon mail that same day.

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• Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

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• And a man who lay with a beast, said the Lord, would surely die. And if he doesn’t lie with a beast, I would have countered, he won’t die?

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• If Richard Nixon was second-rate, what in the world is third-rate?

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• ‘Yossarian? Is that his name? Yossarian? What the hell kind of a name is Yossarian?’ Lieutenant Scheisskopf had the facts at his finger tips. ‘It’s Yossarian’s name, sir,’ he explained.

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• He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.

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• He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

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• The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he’s on.

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• I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

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  Every writer I know has trouble writing.

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• Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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• I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.

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• But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

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• The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

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• I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.

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• When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

  Joseph Heller

• There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn’t want to he was sane and had to.

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Birth:	1st May, 1923
Death:	12th December, 1999
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Novelist, Playwriter, Screenwriter

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