There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
JOSEPH HELLER
I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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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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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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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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I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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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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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Insanity is contagious.
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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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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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