Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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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Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.
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Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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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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I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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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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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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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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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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