Quotes by Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers t — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Why are they going to disappear him?'I don't know.'It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were fl — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady. — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
What the hell are you getting so upset about?" he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrite amusement. "I thought you — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on. — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead. — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office. — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
-You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt... — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been w — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Colonel Cathcart is our commanding officer and we must obey him. Why don't you fly four more missions and see what happe — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brou — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
His heart cracked, and he fell in love. He wondered if she would marry him. “Tu sei pazzo,” she told him with a pleasant — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
My fish dream is a sex dream. — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up s — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
It takes brains not to make money,” Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for ci — Joseph Heller, Catch-22