Joseph Heller citáty

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„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.“

“How ironic the difference between me and my young son Absalom, between his soliciting the soundest means of overtaking me and having my life, while I was cudgeling my brains for a way to spare his. "Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom," were my mawkish words to my commanders as their men trooped past me toward the positions they would take up in the field outside the wood of Ephraim for the battle in which he would die. "Beware that none touch the young man Absalom," I urged like a fool. No, not like a fool, but like a fond, doting father who will overlook and excuse everything in the child he loves best, and who breaks his heart. And in that singular disparity in our desires abides his lasting victory over me: I loved him and he did not love me.”

“Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. And Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action.”

“The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with.”

“I think I may have been the first grown man in the world to fall truly, passionately, sexually, romantically and sentimentally in love. I practically invented it.”

“Whether God is dead or not hardly matters, for we would use him no differently anyway.”

“This time Milo had gone too far. Bombing his own men and planes was more than even the most phlegmatic observer could stomach, and it looked like the end for him…Milo was all washed up until he opened his books to the public and disclosed the tremendous profit he had made.”

“The years are too short, the days are too long.”

“Fools hate knowledge”

“Forever goes quick.”

“She knew Pota had a larger respect for personal privacy than he did for God, Congress, or the U. S. Constitution and never looked at anything there except, occasionally, for the remote control to the television set.”

“The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”