Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
JOSEPH HELLERThe enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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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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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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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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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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Insanity is contagious.
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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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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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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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I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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