Rise above principal and do what’s right.
JOSEPH HELLERYou know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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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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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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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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Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
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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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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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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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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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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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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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I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Insanity is contagious.
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