Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
JOSEPH HELLERJust because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
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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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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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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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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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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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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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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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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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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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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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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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The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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