Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
JOSEPH HELLERThe country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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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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Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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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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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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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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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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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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I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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