Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
JOSEPH HELLERI think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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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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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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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.
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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.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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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.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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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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