There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
JOSEPH HELLERDeath to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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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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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 enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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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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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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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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