"La mente humana es una gran ciudad en la que el individuo está siempre perdido. Se pasa la vida tanteando, tratando de encontrarse." —Joseph Heller
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#JosephHeller was American novelist and author of "Catch 22." #birthday #quotes
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Today In Labor History May 1, 1923: Novelist Joseph Heller was born on this day. He published his most famous book, the anti-war satire, Catch-22, in 1961.
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Literarischer #1Mai
„Just because you‘re paranoid doesn‘t mean they aren‘t after you.“
#JosephHeller #Catch22 Geburt 1923
> I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!
- https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/16/kurt-vonnegut-joe-heller-having-enough/
#Enough with #JosephHeller of #Catch22 fame and #KurtVonnegut see #EnoughIsEnough and #老子, #老子44
- https://mstdn.jp/@bsmall2/109093546734329644
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> I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel
to know that our host only yesterday
may have made more money
than your novel ‘Catch-22’
has earned in its entire history?”
And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.”
And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?”
And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
Not bad! Rest in peace!
- https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/16/kurt-vonnegut-joe-heller-having-enough/
#Enough with #JosephHeller of #Catch22 fame and #KurtVonnegut see #EnoughIsEnough and #老子, #老子44
- https://mstdn.jp/@bsmall2/109093546734329644
#老子44 #老子 #enoughisenough #kurtvonnegut #catch22 #josephheller #enough
On April 10, 1971, Catch-22 debuted in Norway. Here’s a portrait of Alan Arkin as Yossarian!
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#Catch22 #ComedyMovies #AlanArkin #SatiricalFilm #ComedyMovies #WWIIMovies #CultCinema 1970sMovies #JosephHeller #FanArt #PenDrawing #Art #MovieArt #ComedyMovieArt #MovieHistory
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MOVIE QUOTE OF THE DAY:
“Every time I take my pants off, you come at me with a gun.”
Frank Sinatra in Dirty Dingus Magee
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“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.” #JosephHeller #Catch22 #literature #LitStudies #January6 #January6thCommittee #January6th #Trump
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#7books to get to know me (20th century fiction only):
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Porterhouse Blue - Tom Sharp
Perfum: The Story of a Murder - Patrick Süskind
All the King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren
#DouglasAdams #Bulgakov #JosephHeller #Kundera #TomSharp #RobertPennWarren #PatrickSuskind
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> [#JosephHeller].. and I[#KurtVonnegut] were at a party given by a #billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, “Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel ‘Catch-22’ has earned in its entire history?” And Joe said, “I’ve got something he can never have.” And I said, “What on earth could that be, Joe?” And Joe said, “The knowledge that I’ve got enough.”
https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/16/kurt-vonnegut-joe-heller-having-enough/
#Catch22 #Writers #Thinking #EnoughNess #知足 #老子46 #足るを知る
#足るを知る #老子46 #知足 #enoughness #thinking #writers #catch22 #billionaire #kurtvonnegut #josephheller
Catch-22 in grün
Wisst ihr was ein Catch-22 ist? Das stammt aus dem gleichnahmigen Buch vom US-amerikanischen Autor Joseph Heller von 1955. Catch-22 beschreibt ein Dilemma ohne Entkommensmöglichkeit, kurz: Ein Soldat, Flieger, kann aus dem Luftdienst entlassen werden, wenn er bei der Begutachtung geisteskrank ist und wer solche Lufteinsätze flöge muss geisteskrank sein, …
http://www.feuerwaechter.org/2022/09/catch-22-in-gruen/
#Deutschland #DieGrünen #Politik #Catch-22 #Energiewende #JosephHeller #RicardaLang #RobertHabeck
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He was jeopardizing his traditional rights of #freedom & independence by daring to exercise them
#JosephHeller
It was miraculous. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character
#JosephHeller
While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it
#JosephHeller
The only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did
#JosephHeller
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow
#JosephHeller
He knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong
#JosephHeller