Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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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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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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The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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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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You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.
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The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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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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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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