I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
JOSEPH HELLER
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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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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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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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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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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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
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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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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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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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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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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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