Joseph Heller citáty

Joseph Heller byl americký spisovatel. Psal satirická díla, zejména novely a dramata.

✵ 1. květen 1923 – 12. prosinec 1999
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Hlava XXII
Hlava XXII
Joseph Heller
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Joseph Heller nejznámější citáty

„Rozhodl se, že bude žít věcně a umře, jen kdyby mu to nevyšlo.“

Varianta: „Rozhodl se, že bude žít věčně a zemře, jen když mu to nevyjde.“

„Jestli je na světě něco, za co by stálo umřít, je určitě lepší zůstat kvůli tomu naživu.“

Kontext: „Na tom není vůbec nic absurdního, dávat život všanc za svou vlast!“ prohlásil.
"Že ne?" opáčil stařík. "A co je to vlast? Vlast je kus země vymezený na všech stranách hranicemi, obvykle zcela nepřirozenými. Angličani umírají za Anglii, Američani za Ameriku, Němci za Německo, Rusové za Rusko. V současné době bojuje v téhle válce takových padesát či šedesát zemí. Něříkejte mi, že za všechny tyhle vlasti stojí za to umírat."
"Za všechno, pro co stojí za to žít, stojí za to i umřít," prohlásil Nately.
"Jestli je na světě něco, za co by stálo umřít, je určitě lepší zůstat kvůli tomu naživu," řekl na to ten starý rouhač.

Kniha Hlava XXII
Hlava XXII

Joseph Heller: Citáty o válce

„To byste chtěl, aby naše vlast tuhle válku prohrála?“

ptal se major Major.
"My neprohrajeme. Máme víc mužů, víc peněz a víc materiálu. Kdokoliv z těch deseti miliónů lidí v uniformě mě může nahradit. Někteří lidé umírají v boji, ale mnohem víc jich vydělává prachy a užívá si. Ať se nechá zabít někdo jiný."
"Ale co kdyby takhle uvažoval každý, kdo stojí na naší straně?"
"Tak bych byl pěknej trouba, kdybych uvažoval nějak jinak, nemyslíte?"
Hlava XXII

Joseph Heller citáty a výroky

„Když si přečtu něco v tom smyslu, že jsem už nenapsal nic tak dobrého jako Hlava XXII, jsem v pokušení odpovědět: „A kdo napsal?““

Originál: (en) When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"

Source: Oxfordský slovník literárních citací, editoval Peter Kemp, S. 303

Joseph Heller: Citáty anglicky

“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”

Joseph Heller kniha Hlava XXII

Varianta: Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity trust upon them.
Zdroj: Catch-22 (1961)
Kontext: 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.

“There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.”

Joseph Heller kniha Hlava XXII

Catch-22 (1961)
Kontext: There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. "That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

“The only wisdom I think I've attained is the wisdom to be skeptical of other people's ideology and other people's arguments. I tend to be a skeptic, I don't like dogmatic approaches by anybody.”

In an interview for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: "Joseph Heller - Closing Time" (1998) by Ramona Koval http://web.archive.org/web/20000306044602/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/bwriting/heller.htm <!-- accessdate=2007-08-30 -->
Kontext: The only wisdom I think I've attained is the wisdom to be skeptical of other people's ideology and other people's arguments. I tend to be a skeptic, I don't like dogmatic approaches by anybody. I don't like intolerance and a dogmatic person is intolerant of other people. It's one of the reasons I keep a distance from all religious beliefs. I think in this country and in Australia too there's a late intolerance in most religions, an intolerance, a part that could easily become persecutions.
We have some ultra-orthodox Jewish sects here in New York and I fear them as much as I would fear a Nazi organisation.

“Insanity is contagious.”

Joseph Heller kniha Hlava XXII

Zdroj: Catch-22

“Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.”

Joseph Heller kniha Hlava XXII

Zdroj: Catch-22 (1961)
Kontext: Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably.... It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.

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