The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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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’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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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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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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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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Insanity is contagious.
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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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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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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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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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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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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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