Quotes by Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller

¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨

People

War

Winning

… there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

Madness

People

Strong

…[A]nything worth dying for … is certainly worth living for.

Dying

Worth Living

“Surely so many countries can’t all be 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.”

Country

Dying

Men

“What would they do to me,” he asked in confidential tones, “if I refused to fly them?” “We’d probably shoot you,” ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied. “We?” Yossarian cried in surprise. “What do you mean, we? Since when are you on their side?” “If you’re going to be shot, whose side do you expect me to be on?” ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen retorted.

Mean

Sides

Tone

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Educate

People

A man’s head is his castle.

Castles

Men

Mind

Actually there were many officers’ clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination. Yossarian never went there to help until it was finished; then he went there often, so pleased was he with the large , fine, rambling shingled building. It was a truly splendid building, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his.

Accomplishment

Determination

Rambling

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.

Ideas

War

Writing

All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.

Alive

Greek

Thinking

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Accomplishment

Achieve

Adjectives

Air

Alive

Angel

Answers

Army

Asks

Atrocities

Bangs

Be Good

Being Thankful

Believe

Bible

Blame

Body

Book

Born

Brain

Broke

Business

Can Do

Captains

Castles

Cat

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Character

Children

Civilization

Class

Closing

Cold

Colonels

Combat

Contagious

Country

Crazy

Dark

Death

Delay

Depression

Destiny

Determination

Died

Differences

Disappear

Disappointment

Discovery

Divorce

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Quotes by Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller

¨ Oh, I´m not complaining. I know there´s a war on. I know a lot of people are going to have to suffer for us to win it. But why must I be one of them?¨

… there is wisdom in madness and strong probability of truth in all accusations, for people are complete, and everyone is capable of everything.

…[A]nything worth dying for … is certainly worth living for.

“Surely so many countries can’t all be 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.”

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

A man’s head is his castle.

All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.

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