Frases de Joseph Heller (135 citas, página 5)

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Frases célebres de Joseph Heller

“Mi problema con la soledad es que la compañía de otros nunca ha sido una cura para ella.”

“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

“The last thing any sensible human being should want is immortality. As it is, life lasts too long for most of us.”

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Joseph Heller libro God Knows

God Knows (1984)

“How ironic the difference between me and my young son Absalom, between his soliciting the soundest means of overtaking me and having my life, while I was cudgeling my brains for a way to spare his. "Deal gently for my sake with the young man Absalom," were my mawkish words to my commanders as their men trooped past me toward the positions they would take up in the field outside the wood of Ephraim for the battle in which he would die. "Beware that none touch the young man Absalom," I urged like a fool. No, not like a fool, but like a fond, doting father who will overlook and excuse everything in the child he loves best, and who breaks his heart. And in that singular disparity in our desires abides his lasting victory over me: I loved him and he did not love me.”

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Joseph Heller libro God Knows

God Knows (1984)

“Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. And Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Catch-22 (1961)

“The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Catch-22 (1961)

“I think I may have been the first grown man in the world to fall truly, passionately, sexually, romantically and sentimentally in love. I practically invented it.”

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Joseph Heller libro God Knows

God Knows (1984)

“Whether God is dead or not hardly matters, for we would use him no differently anyway.”

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Joseph Heller libro God Knows

God Knows (1984)

“This time Milo had gone too far. Bombing his own men and planes was more than even the most phlegmatic observer could stomach, and it looked like the end for him…Milo was all washed up until he opened his books to the public and disclosed the tremendous profit he had made.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Catch-22 (1961)

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

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Joseph Heller libro Something Happened

Something Happened (1974)

“Fools hate knowledge”

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Joseph Heller libro God Knows

God Knows (1984)

“Forever goes quick.”

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Joseph Heller libro Good as Gold

Good as Gold (1979)

“She knew Pota had a larger respect for personal privacy than he did for God, Congress, or the U. S. Constitution and never looked at anything there except, occasionally, for the remote control to the television set.”

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Joseph Heller libro Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man

Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000)

“The chaplain had mastered, in a moment of divine intuition, the handy technique of protective rationalization, and he was exhilarated by his discovery. 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.”

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Joseph Heller libro Catch-22

Catch-22 (1961)

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