Joseph Heller Quotes
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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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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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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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Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.
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Insanity is contagious.
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For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.
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I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
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Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
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You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.
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They can do anything we can't stop them from doing.
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I'm gonna live forever, or die trying.
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Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
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Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.
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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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The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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I don't believe in miracles because it's been a long time since we've had any.
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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
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I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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Suppose everyone on our side felt that way?
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He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
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After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back." And he had not written anyone since.
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Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)