Joseph Heller Quotes about Giving

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Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.

Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.

Joseph Heller

Giving, Might, Give Me

Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if you've already got all that your imagination has dreamt up for you? A writer is only discovered once in a lifetime, and if it happens very early the impossibility of matching that moment again can have a somewhat corrosive effect on his personality and indeed on the work itself.

Joseph Heller

Thinking, Giving, Imagination

Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.115, Univ. Press of Mississippi