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Joseph Heller war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

✵ 1. Mai 1923 – 12. Dezember 1999
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Joseph Heller Zitate und Sprüche

„[Sie] waren sich einig, dass es weder möglich noch notwendig war, Menschen auszubilden, die nie etwas in Frage stellten.“

Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller: Zitate auf Englisch

“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.”

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Joseph Heller buch God Knows

Quelle: God Knows (1984)

“What do you do when it rains?"
The captain answered frankly. "I get wet.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22

“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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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22

“Where were you born?"
"On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered.
"No, no. In what state were you born?"
"In a state of innocence.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22

“He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22 (1961)

“Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22

“Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22

“There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22

“Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.'
Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.'
And anything worth dying for,' answered the sacrilegious old man, 'is certainly worth living for.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch 22

“You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22

“Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22

“Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22

“When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”

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Joseph Heller buch Something Happened

Something Happened (1974)

“I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch 22

“I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22

“Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22

“For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.”

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Joseph Heller buch Closing Time

Quelle: Closing Time

“where are the snowdens of yesteryear?”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Variante: Who is Spain?
Why is Hitler?
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
Quelle: Catch-22

“Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?"
"Yes, sir, it has."
"Then why do you do it?"
"To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch 22

“You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22

“Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22

“While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.”

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Joseph Heller buch Catch-22

Quelle: Catch-22

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