Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
JOSEPH HELLERBe glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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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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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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I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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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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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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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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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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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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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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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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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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