It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
JOSEPH HELLERI don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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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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Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
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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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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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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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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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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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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.
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I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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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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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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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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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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