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When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?' -- Joseph Heller
Catch-22' was a nightmare to make, and everybody was unhappy except me. -- Mike Nichols
I cited 'Catch-22' as a landmark film and one of my favourites. -- John Curran
That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed. -- Joseph Heller
The fictional character with whom I most profoundly identified was Yossarian in Catch-22. Always did, still do. -- Neil Cross
It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different. -- Eddie Van Halen
Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22:;: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children. -- Warren Farrell
You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
There's a rule saying I have to ground anyone who's crazy ... There's a catch. Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy. -- Joseph Heller
For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework. -- Sylvia Ann Hewlett
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I was eighteen when I first read Joseph Heller's stunning work 'Catch-22,' and was at that time close to being drafted for the fruitless and unenlightened war in Viet Nam. -- Thomas Steinbeck
Catch-22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon...remarkable... This is a book that I could wish everyone to read. It is a book which should help us feel more clearly -- Philip Toynbee
I feel like part of your job as an actor is you're going to get noticed, and the more successful you get, the more noticed you are. It's kind of like a Catch-22. -- Lynn Collins
Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about. -- Alan Arkin
'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about. -- Alan Arkin
You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe. -- Jasper Fforde
Now that my kids are out of the house, I'm finally able to get to the classics I never read: Emily Bronte, Dylan Thomas, Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22.' It's endless. They're all in this gigantic pile next to my bed. -- Robin Wright
Fobbit is fast, razor sharp, and seven kinds of hilarious. Thank you, Mr. Abrams, for the much needed salve--it feels good to finally laugh about Iraq. Fobbit deserves a place alongside Slaughterhouse Five and Catch-22 as one of our great comic novels about the absurdity of war. -- Jonathan Evison
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22. 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. -- Joseph Heller
It's kind of a catch-22 now because since the 'Da Vinci Code,' I have access to places and people that I didn't have access to before, so that's a lot of fun for somebody like me, but I'm always trying to keep a secret. I don't want people to know what I'm writing about. -- Dan Brown
I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist. -- Donny Osmond
We have to nurture our young women and understand the beauty and the strength of being a woman. It's kind of a catch-22: Strength in women isn't appreciated, and vulnerability in women isn't appreciated. It's like, 'What the hell do you do?' What you do is you don't allow anyone to dictate who you are. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
There was only one catch and that was catch 22 -- Joseph Heller
In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them. -- Elizabeth Wurtzel
This left me alone to solve the coffee problem - a sort of catch-22, as in order to think straight I need caffeine, and in order to make that happen I need to think straight. -- David Sedaris

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