Joseph Heller Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: May 1, 1923 - December 12, 1999
Birthday: May 1
Death: December 12
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
source: Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.75, Simon and Schuster
topic: Ideas, Class, Tennis, Olympic Medals, Class Privilege, Yossarian
