The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
JOSEPH HELLERInsanity is contagious.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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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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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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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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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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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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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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I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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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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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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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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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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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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You 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.
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