Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
JOSEPH HELLERYou’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.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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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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Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
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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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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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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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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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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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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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