It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
JOSEPH HELLER
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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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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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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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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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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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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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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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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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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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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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
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