Joseph Heller citáty

„Urob to sexy a zábavné a máš skoro všetko, čo potrebuješ pre čítanú knihu, z ktorej by sa mohol vykľuť veľký bestseller.“

„Vedel o literature vsetko, okrem toho, ako mat z nej radost.“

„Jediný naozaj neodpustiteľné hriech je používať ľudí ako veci.“

„Bol považovaný za experta ľuďmi, ktorí toho veľa nevedeli.“

„Myslel som si, že keď o tom nebude nikto hovoriť, nebude to pravda.“

„Pred nemocnicou sa stále bojovalo. Muži sa zbláznili a boli za to odmenení medailami.“

„Niektorí muži sa rodia priemerní, niektorí muži dosahujú priemernosť a na niektorých sa priemernosť vrhne sama.“

„Nepriateľ je každý, kto ťa chce zabiť, nezáležiac na strane, na ktorej je.“

„Prostitúcia jej poskytuje príležitosť stretávať ľudí. Postará sa jej o čerstvý vzduch a zmysluplné cvičenie, a udržuje ju z dosahu problémoch.“

„Šialenstvo je nákazlivé.“

„Ak je charakter osudom, dobrí sú zatratení.“

„Roky sú príliš krátke, dni sú príliš dlhé.“

„Je to klamný stav, že? Veriť v Boha a pritom nedostať žiadne znamenie, že je s Vami.“

„Bude žiť večne alebo zomrie pri pokuse žiť večne.“

„Nie som si ani istý, či sme naozaj mali takú veľkú potrebu mať Boha, ako sme sa zdali mať potrebu veriť v Neho.“

“That crazy bastard may be the only sane one left.”

“How dispiriting I find it, even after all my personal triumphs, that we must grow up and grow sad, that we must age, weaken, and in time go home to our long home in the ground, and that even golden lads and girls all must, as chimney sweepers, come to dust.”

“"Is he in heaven? Is he in hell?"
"There is no heaven. There is no hell."
"There is no heaven? There is no hell?"
"That's all in your mind."”

“The wise man dies no better or more wisely than the fool. In what way, then, is the wise man wise?”

“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”

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

“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.”

“The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.”

“The only wisdom I think I've attained is the wisdom to be skeptical of other people's ideology and other people's arguments. I tend to be a skeptic, I don't like dogmatic approaches by anybody.”

“The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.”

“He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it”

“Insanity is contagious.”

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

“Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”

“Why are they going to disappear him?'
I don't know.'
It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.”

“The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”

“Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.”

“The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.”

“Be glad you're even alive.'
Be furious you're going to die.”

“I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.”

““From now on I'm thinking only of me.” Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: “But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way?” “Then,” said Yossarian, “I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?””

“Every writer I know has trouble writing.”

“There is no disappointment so numbing… as someone no better than you achieving more.”

“When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.”

“Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.”

“mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.”

“Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.”