She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
JOSEPH HELLERIt doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Insanity is contagious.
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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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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
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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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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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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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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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I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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