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 HELLERThe villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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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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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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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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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.
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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 believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
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Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
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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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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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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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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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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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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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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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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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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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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Insanity is contagious.
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