Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
JOSEPH HELLERLet’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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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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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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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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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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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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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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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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Insanity is contagious.
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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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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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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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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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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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