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.
JOSEPH HELLERI wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
-
-
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.
JOSEPH HELLER -
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
JOSEPH HELLER -
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.
JOSEPH HELLER -
I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
JOSEPH HELLER -
It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
JOSEPH HELLER -
While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
JOSEPH HELLER -
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
JOSEPH HELLER -
I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
JOSEPH HELLER -
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
JOSEPH HELLER -
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
JOSEPH HELLER -
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
JOSEPH HELLER -
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
JOSEPH HELLER -
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
JOSEPH HELLER -
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
JOSEPH HELLER -
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
JOSEPH HELLER -
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
JOSEPH HELLER -
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
JOSEPH HELLER -
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
JOSEPH HELLER