I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
JOSEPH HELLERThey agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Insanity is contagious.
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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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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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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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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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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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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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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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
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I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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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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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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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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