Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
JOSEPH HELLEREvery writer I know has trouble writing.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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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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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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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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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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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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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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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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I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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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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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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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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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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