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.

Joseph Heller

Catch-22

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Topic

Mediocrity

Author

Joseph Heller

Source

Catch-22

Medium

Novel

Genre

War novel

Language

English

Time

1961 1960s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Simon & Schuster, 1961, ch. 9.

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