Every writer I know has trouble writing.
JOSEPH HELLERI’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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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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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
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Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
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Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Insanity is contagious.
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The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
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When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
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