History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
JOSEPH HELLERInsanity is contagious.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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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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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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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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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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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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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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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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The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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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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There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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