I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
JOSEPH HELLERThe enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Insanity is contagious.
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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