Joseph HellerThe captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish. <… ▶371Reading
Joseph HellerEvery writer I know has trouble writing. ✨ Personal Quotes/ Biography. www.imdb.com.363Politics
Joseph HellerWhen I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy. ✨ Joseph Heller (19… ▶363HumanityReading
Joseph HellerSuppose everyone on our side felt that way? ✨ Catch-22. Book by Joseph Heller, 1961.375Reading
Joseph HellerI think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy365Thought
Joseph HellerSomeone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit … ▶321ReadingTime
Joseph Heller[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything. ✨ Joseph Heller (1999). Catch-22: A Novel, p.43, Simon and Schuster… ▶344HumanityReading
Joseph HellerI’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life. ✨ Joseph Heller (1999). Catch-22: A Novel, p… ▶301LifeReading
Joseph HellerProstitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble. ✨ Joseph Heller (2010). Catch-22: 50th A… ▶367Humanity
Joseph HellerThey couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady. ✨ Joseph Heller (1999). Catch-22: A Novel, p.159, Simon and Schuster345DeathReading
Joseph HellerClevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times. ✨ Joseph Heller (1999). Catch-22: A Novel, p.75, Sim… ▶334HumanityReadingThought
Joseph HellerWhen I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?' ✨ The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations. Book edited by Pet… ▶335Reading
Joseph HellerThe Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.302Philosophy
Joseph HellerAs always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passionately, he would end up gasping furiously for air and blinking back bitter tears of conviction. The… ▶357LoveReading
Joseph HellerYou have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot! ✨ Catch-22. Book by Joseph Hel… ▶379Reading
Joseph HellerFor war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive. ✨ Joseph Heller (2016). Closing Time, p.226, Simon and Schuster346Time
Joseph HellerHer own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had mere… ▶291Reading
Joseph HellerI think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly. ✨ Joseph Heller (1974). Something Happened, p.21, Simon and Schuster… ▶357Thought
Joseph HellerI want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. ✨ Joseph Heller (1975). Something happened314Hope
Joseph HellerI don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.' ✨ Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). Conversations with Joseph Heller, p.109, Uni… ▶314ReadingThought
Joseph Hellerwhere are the snowdens of yesteryear? ✨ Joseph Heller (1999). Catch-22: A Novel, p.42, Simon and Schuster3710Reading
Joseph HellerIt doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead. ✨ Joseph Heller (1999). Catch-22: A Novel, p.122, Simon and Schuster3710DeathReading
Joseph HellerRise above principal and do what's right.3710Philosophy
Joseph HellerIt's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum325Truth
Joseph HellerBe glad you're even alive.' Be furious you're going to die. ✨ Joseph Heller (1999). Catch-22: A Novel, p.171, Simon and Schuster303DeathLifeReading
Joseph HellerHe knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. ✨ Joseph Heller (1999). Catch-22: A Novel, p.73, Simon and Schuster337Reading
Joseph HellerWhen I grow up I want to be a little boy. ✨ Joseph Heller (1974). Something Happened, p.340, Simon and Schuster315Truth
Joseph HellerHe had decided to live forever or die in the attempt. ✨ Catch-22 ch. 3 (1961)282Death
Joseph HellerYou know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail. ✨ Catch-22. Book by Joseph Heller,… ▶3610Reading
Joseph Hellermankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow. ✨ 1988 Picture This, ch.37.3610Humanity
