I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
JOSEPH HELLERWhen I grow up I want to be a little boy.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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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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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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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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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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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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The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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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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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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