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Joseph Heller
Age: 76 †
Born: 1923
Born: May 1
Died: 1999
Died: December 10
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Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.
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All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.
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He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
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Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did.
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I've come to look upon death the same way I look upon root-canal work. Everyone else seems to get through it all right, so it couldn't be too difficult for me.
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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.
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...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.
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If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?
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Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?
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They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
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If character is destiny, the good are damned.
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Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.
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I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
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There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)
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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.
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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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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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