Alberto Chimal · @albertochimal
1799 followers · 1956 posts · Server mstdn.mx

"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

#citas #citasliterarias #literatura #cuento #josephheller #escritores #libroverso

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Bob on Books · @bobonbooks
13 followers · 102 posts · Server mindly.social

was American novelist and author of "Catch 22."

#josephheller #birthday #quotes

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MikeDunnAuthor · @MikeDunnAuthor
1172 followers · 2295 posts · Server kolektiva.social

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.

@bookstadon

#workingclass #LaborHistory #Catch22 #josephheller #wwii #satire #novel #fiction #historicalfiction #antiwar

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· @itbeobachter
115 followers · 868 posts · Server nrw.social

Literarischer

„Just because you‘re paranoid doesn‘t mean they aren‘t after you.“

Geburt 1923

#1mai #josephheller #catch22

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bs2 · @bsmall2
202 followers · 3630 posts · Server mstdn.jp

> 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!
- themarginalian.org/2014/01/16/
with of fame and see and ,
- mstdn.jp/@bsmall2/109093546734

#老子44 #老子 #enoughisenough #kurtvonnegut #catch22 #josephheller #enough

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bs2 · @bsmall2
225 followers · 3979 posts · Server mstdn.jp

> 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!
- themarginalian.org/2014/01/16/
with of fame and see and ,
- mstdn.jp/@bsmall2/109093546734

#老子44 #老子 #enoughisenough #kurtvonnegut #catch22 #josephheller #enough

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Schlockluster Video · @SchlocklusterVideo
931 followers · 6935 posts · Server mstdn.party
helices · @helices
113 followers · 4981 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

For there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive

#war #josephheller

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Paul Brenner · @pbrenner
4 followers · 52 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org

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

#dirtydingusmagee #sinatra #franksinatra #josephheller #burtkennedy #moviequotes #moviequoteoftheday

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Tony Pennino · @beatnikprof
672 followers · 1006 posts · Server mas.to

“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.”

#Trump #January6th #January6thCommittee #January6 #litstudies #literature #catch22 #josephheller

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Holger Kaufmann · @HolgerDownUnder
31 followers · 13 posts · Server aus.social

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

#7books #douglasadams #bulgakov #josephheller #kundera #tomsharp #robertpennwarren #patricksuskind

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bs2 · @bsmall2
195 followers · 3346 posts · Server mstdn.jp

> [].. and I[] were at a party given by a 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.”
themarginalian.org/2014/01/16/

#足るを知る #老子46 #知足 #enoughness #thinking #writers #catch22 #billionaire #kurtvonnegut #josephheller

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♨ Feuerwächter · @Feuerwaechter
120 followers · 5728 posts · Server mstdn.io

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, …

feuerwaechter.org/2022/09/catc

-22

#deutschland #diegrünen #politik #catch #energiewende #josephheller #RicardaLang #roberthabeck

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

He was jeopardizing his traditional rights of & independence by daring to exercise them

#freedom #josephheller

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

It was miraculous. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character

#josephheller

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it

#josephheller

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

The only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did

#josephheller

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow

#josephheller

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

For there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive

#war #josephheller

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

He knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong

#josephheller

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