Joseph Heller Quotes
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What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war. Surely so many countries can't all be worth dying for.
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He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
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But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make him out to be.
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Insanity is contagious.
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In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains, and everyone knew it except those who soon found it out.
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)
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I think that maybe in every company today there is always at least one person who is going crazy slowly.
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I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
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That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
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Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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There was only one catch and that was catch 22
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Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.
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I couldn't see much point in tying myself down to a middle-aged woman with four children, even though the woman was my wife and the children were my own.
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It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.
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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.