Joseph Heller Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.

  Joseph Heller

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

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

  Joseph Heller

  Exercise, Opportunity, Air

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.465, Simon and Schuster

• Clevinger was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant Scheisskopf knew that Clevinger might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was the cadet officers; tomorrow it might be the world. Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskopf had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times. Such men were dangerous, and even the new cadet officers whom Clevinger had helped into office were eager to give damning testimony against him. The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with.

  Joseph Heller

  Wise, Smart, Men

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

• Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.

  Joseph Heller

  Giving, Might, Give Me

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

• I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.

  Joseph Heller

  Thinking, Giving, Imagination

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.115, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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