American - Novelist | May 1, 1923 - December 12, 1999
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.
Joseph Heller
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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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When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
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We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
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There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.
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He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
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Rise above principle and do what's right.
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He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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