Joseph Heller Quotes - Page 5

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

  Joseph Heller

  Stars, Night, Men

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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

  Joseph Heller

  Funny, Military, Military Leadership

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Cat, Fighting, Fists

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Someone 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 that was imperiling them all.

  Joseph Heller

  Trying, Habit, Victim

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

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• The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.

  Joseph Heller

  Writing, Media, People

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• When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

  Joseph Heller

  People, Objectives

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.417, Simon and Schuster

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• When 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

  Angel, People, Heaven

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.

  Joseph Heller

  Genius, Proud, Ineptitude

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• It'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 Slocum

  Joseph Heller

  Wise, Liars, Dumb

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• Let someone else get killed!

  Joseph Heller

  Military

  "Catch-22". Book by Joseph Heller, 1961.

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

  Joseph Heller

  Peace, War, Government

  1961 Milo Minderbinder. Catch-22, ch.24.

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• Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

  Joseph Heller

  Military, Way, Fool

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages.

  Joseph Heller

  Writing, Pages, Type

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• Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?

  Joseph Heller

  Military, Way, Sides

  "Catch-22". Book by Joseph Heller, 1961.

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• That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

  Joseph Heller

  Catch 22 Important, Yossarian

  Catch-22 (1961) ch. 5 (the first chapter of this novel was published as Catch-18 in New World Writing (1955) No. 7 - see Kiley and MacDonald "Catch-22" Casebook (1973) 294)

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• Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comparison, had failed.

  Joseph Heller

  Successful, Names, Two

  Joseph Heller (1997). “Good as Gold”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Giving, Imagination

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.115, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.

  Joseph Heller

  Nurse, Trying, Wonderful

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.313, Simon and Schuster

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• When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'

  Joseph Heller

  Writing, Done, Tempted

  "The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations". Book edited by Peter Kemp, p. 303, 1997.

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• She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.

  Joseph Heller

  Sorrow, Epitome

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.

  Joseph Heller

  Smart, People, Mind

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar. "All right, I'll dance with you," she said, before Yossarian could even speak. "But I won't let you sleep with me." "Who asked you?" Yossarian asked her. "You don't want to sleep with me?" she exclaimed with surprise. "I don't want to dance with you.

  Joseph Heller

  Stupid, Sleep, Night

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

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• Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule or refute, to accuse, criticize, attack, amend, hate, revile, spit at, rip to shreds, trample upon or burn up.

  Joseph Heller

  Hate, Rip, Differences

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.377, Simon and Schuster

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• Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.

  Joseph Heller

  Office, Catch 22 Important, Majors

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.

  Joseph Heller

  Crazy, Want, Combat

  Joseph Heller, Robert M. Scotto (1973). “Joseph Heller's Catch-22: A Critical Edition”

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