Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
JOSEPH HELLERThe 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.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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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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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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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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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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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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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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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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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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