I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
JOSEPH HELLERRise above principal and do what’s right.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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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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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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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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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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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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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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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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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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