Joseph Heller
Joseph Heller
Joseph Hellerwas an American satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. The title of one of his works, Catch-22, entered the English lexicon, to refer to a vicious circle, wherein an absurd, no-win, contradictory choice, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is a bureaucratic, or legal impossibility for artificial reasons, and hence, then regardless of the chosen option, a paradoxically negative outcome is a certainty. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his other works...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth1 May 1923
CountryUnited States of America
Joseph Heller quotes about
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.
Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.
where are the snowdens of yesteryear?
It made him proud that 29 months in the service had not blunted his genius for ineptitude.
Insanity is contagious.
Why are they going to disappear him?' I don't know.' It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.