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Joseph Heller novelista estadounidense, estudió en la Universidad de Nueva York.

Estudió en las universidades de Nueva York, Columbia y Oxford y acabó enseñando inglés en la Universidad Estatal de Pensilvania.[1]​ Era un admirador de la obra de Louis-Ferdinand Céline y de James Patrick Donleavy.[2]​

Se hizo famoso con su primera novela Trampa-22 en 1961 donde realizó una crítica a la ética militar norteamericana coincidiendo con la Guerra de Vietnam. El héroe de esta novela es el aviador Yossarian, quien pretende alegar demencia para escapar del servicio militar, a lo que las autoridades le responden que no querer llevar a cabo misiones aéreas es signo de salud mental.[3]​ En 1970 se realizó una película basada en la novela.[4]​

✵ 1. mayo 1923 – 12. diciembre 1999
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Frases célebres de Joseph Heller

“Imagínese lo que es un hombre de su edad arriesgando la poca vida que le queda por algo tan absurdo como una patria.
-Nately volvió a alzarse en son de guerra.
-¡No tiene nada de absurdo arriesgar la vida por la patria!- declaró.
-¿Ah, no? -preguntó el viejo-. ¿Qué es un país, al fin y al cabo? Un trozo de tierra rodeado por todas partes de fronteras, por lo general antinaturales. Los ingleses mueren por Inglaterra, los americanos por América, los alemanes por Alemania, los rusos por Rusia. Hay unos cincuenta o sesenta países luchando en esta guerra. No es posible que merezca la pena morir por todos ellos.
-Cualquier cosa por la que valga la pena vivir también vale la pena morir por ella -dijo Nately.
-Y cualquier cosa por la que valga la pena morir -replicó el viejo blasfemo- vale la pena vivir por ella. Es usted tan puro y tan inocente que casi me da lástima. ¿Cuántos años tiene? ¿Veinticinco? ¿Veintiséis?
-Diecinueve -respondió Nately-. Cumpliré veinte en enero.
-Si sigue usted vivo.”

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

“Yossarian estaba comprometiendo sus tradicionales derechos de libertad e independencia con la osadía de ejercerlos.”

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

Joseph Heller: Frases en inglés

“Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery or simple bad luck.”

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Joseph Heller libro God Knows

Fuente: God Knows (1984)

“What do you do when it rains?"
The captain answered frankly. "I get wet.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

“You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate."

"Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them consciously.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

“Where were you born?"
"On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered.
"No, no. In what state were you born?"
"In a state of innocence.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

“He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22 (1961)

“Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

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

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

“There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

“Surely there can't be so many countries worth dying for.'
Anything worth living for,' said Nately, 'is worth dying for.'
And anything worth dying for,' answered the sacrilegious old man, 'is certainly worth living for.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch 22

“You have no respect for excessive authority or obsolete traditions. You're dangerous and depraved, and you ought to be taken outside and shot!”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

“Men," he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

“Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

“When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”

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Joseph Heller libro Something Happened

Something Happened (1974)

“I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch 22

“I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

“Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

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

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Joseph Heller libro Closing Time

Fuente: Closing Time

“where are the snowdens of yesteryear?”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Variante: Who is Spain?
Why is Hitler?
Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?
Fuente: Catch-22

“Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?"
"Yes, sir, it has."
"Then why do you do it?"
"To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch 22

“You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal position to appreciate it.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

“Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

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

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Fuente: Catch-22

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