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Joseph Heller

Every writer I know has trouble writing.
JOSEPH HELLER

Trouble Writer Writing
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
JOSEPH HELLER

Mad Paranoid
Insanity is contagious.
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Contagious Insane One Liner
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
JOSEPH HELLER

Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise
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.
JOSEPH HELLER

Appreciation Character Courage Intelligence Moral
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
JOSEPH HELLER

Accident Failure Predict
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
JOSEPH HELLER

Deal Greatness Important Work
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.
JOSEPH HELLER

Ashame Failure Trick
I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
JOSEPH HELLER

Imagination Mercy Process Understand
Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
JOSEPH HELLER

Government Industry Private Togetherness
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
JOSEPH HELLER

Book Conflict Deal Fashion Opinion Rude Subject
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Epitome She Smile Sorrow Time
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
JOSEPH HELLER

Achievement Born Medicore Mediocrity Men Sarcastic Thrust
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
JOSEPH HELLER

Enjoyment Except Literature

They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

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