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I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.
— Joseph Heller
Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
— Joseph Heller
I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
— Joseph Heller
Man was matter. Drop him out of a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage.
— Joseph Heller
Yossarian left money in the old woman's lap - it was odd how many wrongs leaving money seemed to right - and
— Joseph Heller
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
— Joseph Heller
I wonder what kind of person would come out if I ever did erase all my inhibitions at once, what kind of being is bottled up inside me now.
— Joseph Heller
Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
— Joseph Heller
You will hurt your foot.
— Joseph Heller
But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong.
— Joseph Heller
My fish dream is a sex dream.
— Joseph Heller
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[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
— Joseph Heller
They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?""Who else will go? — Joseph Heller
You're inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?
— Joseph Heller
Even when he cheated he couldn't win, because the people he cheated against were always better at cheating too.
— Joseph Heller
As soon as there was profit, there were people who wanted to make it, more than they wanted to make anything else.
— Joseph Heller
A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules or conditions.
— Joseph Heller
He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.
— Joseph Heller
Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
— Joseph Heller
A man's head is his castle.
— Joseph Heller
Be thankful you're healthy." "Be bitter you're not going to stay that way." "Be glad you're even alive." "Be furious you're going to die.
— Joseph Heller
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
— Joseph Heller
But I'm afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees. That is the way the saying goes.
— Joseph Heller
I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.
— Joseph Heller
Just pass the work I assign along to somebody else and trust to luck. We call that delegation of responsibility.
— Joseph Heller
The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share.
— Joseph Heller
If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?
— Joseph Heller
There was one catch, and that was Catch-22.
— Joseph Heller
It was love at first sight.
— Joseph Heller
There is wisdom in madness, and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everybody is capable of everything.
— Joseph Heller
Insanity is contagious.
— Joseph Heller
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
— Joseph Heller
I have some decades to spare. Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?
— Joseph Heller
Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
— Joseph Heller
Because he needed a friend so desperately, he never found one.
— Joseph Heller
Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
— Joseph Heller
Yossarian attended the education sessions because he wanted to find out why so many people were working so hard to kill him.
— Joseph Heller
Shooting skeet eight hours a month was excellent training for them. It trained them to shoot skeet.
— Joseph Heller
The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.
— Joseph Heller
She destroyed egos by the score and made men hate themselves in the morning by the way she found them, used them, and tossed them aside.
— Joseph Heller
Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out
— Joseph Heller
Yossarian!!!(?)!
— Joseph Heller
For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.
— Joseph Heller
Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise.
— Joseph Heller
I get the willies when I see closed doors.
— Joseph Heller
He could not make them understand that ... having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort.
— Joseph Heller
I see everything twice!
— Joseph Heller
Moses has the Ten Commandments, it's true, but I've got much better lines - King David
— Joseph Heller
Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain.
— Joseph Heller
It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
— Joseph Heller
Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat.
— Joseph Heller
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
— Joseph Heller
They were the most depressing group of people Yossarian had ever been with. They were always in high spirits.
— Joseph Heller
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
— Joseph Heller
Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.
— Joseph Heller
Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)
— Joseph Heller
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
— Joseph Heller
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
— Joseph Heller
It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.
— Joseph Heller
First impressions die slowly, bad impressions take even longer
— Joseph Heller
Everybody is as unstable as water.
— Joseph Heller
I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals.
— Joseph Heller
He began to wonder with genuine concern just what sort of shithead the Pentagon had foisted on him.
— Joseph Heller
You have a morbid aversion to dying.
— Joseph Heller
I have a weakness for fresh eggs.
— Joseph Heller
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
— Joseph Heller
I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.
— Joseph Heller
The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.
— Joseph Heller
You've got flies in your eyes. That's why you can't see them.
— Joseph Heller
I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.
— Joseph Heller
We have no ideas, and they're pretty firm.
— Joseph Heller
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.
— Joseph Heller
The Texan wanted everybody in the ward to be happy but Yossarian and Dunbar. He was really very sick.
— Joseph Heller
Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted toask questions were those who never did. — Joseph Heller
They think that they're smart and that the rest of us are dumb.
— Joseph Heller
Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.
— Joseph Heller
Rise above principle and do what's right.
— Joseph Heller
In a world in which success was the only virtue, he had resigned himself to failure.
— Joseph Heller
Rise above principal and do what's right.
— Joseph Heller
Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?
— Joseph Heller
And he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He
— Joseph Heller
I don't think the 'what' distinguishes a good novel from a bad one but rather the 'how.'
— Joseph Heller
He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret
— Joseph Heller
