Joseph Heller

Person · Open Library

Born

1 May 1923

Died

12 December 1999

Works

77

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,946

Total plays

39,140

Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American satirical novelist, short story writer and playwright. He wrote the influential novel Catch-22 about American servicemen during World War II. The title of this work entered the English lexicon to refer to absurd, no-win choices, particularly in situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an impossibility, and regardless of choice, the same negative outcome is a certainty. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Joseph+Heller

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection

   · 2016 · cited 40,334x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,569x

3. Naturalistic inquiry

   · 1985 · cited 34,831x

4. When to use and how to report the results of PLS-SEM

   · 2019 · cited 21,529x

5. CONFIDENCE LIMITS ON PHYLOGENIES: AN APPROACH USING THE BOOTSTRAP

   · 1985 · cited 19,724x

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Quotes

• “When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?"”
• “Everyone in my book accuses everyone else of being crazy. Frankly, I think the whole society is nuts — and the question is: What does a sane man do in an insane society?”
• “It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.”
• “The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.”
• “"Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead."”
• “Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.”

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