Joseph Heller

Joseph Heller (1923-1999) was a US novelist and writer of short stories, plays, and screenplays. He is best-known for his novel "Catch-22" (1961), which is a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated in 1972 for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.

- Catch 22

• He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to the hill.

- Catch 22

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