Joseph Heller

1923–1999

Joseph Heller (1923–1999) was an American novelist and screenwriter. His debut novel Catch-22 (1961) satirizes war and bureaucracy; its title became a familiar term for a self-defeating or contradictory predicament.

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3 quotes we’ve traced to Joseph Heller

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

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

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“Yeah, but I have something he’ll never have: enough”

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Not actually Joseph Heller

Often misattributed to Joseph Heller

Famous lines widely pinned on Joseph Heller that we’ve traced to someone else.

“The end result of experiencing terror and injury is not an increase in compassion, but a tendency toward callousness”

actually C. A. Peek

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