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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.

Joseph Heller

Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
JOSEPH HELLER

Job Principle Quit Regret
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
JOSEPH HELLER

Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.
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Appreciation Character Courage Intelligence Moral
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
JOSEPH HELLER

Mad Paranoid
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
JOSEPH HELLER

Boy Grow Up Little
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
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.
JOSEPH HELLER

Ashame Failure Trick
I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
JOSEPH HELLER

Life Negative Responsiblity Run Save
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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Children Favor Influence Liberation Parents War
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
JOSEPH HELLER

Freedom Live Strong
Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
JOSEPH HELLER

Drive Live Packet
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.
JOSEPH HELLER

Change Confidence Courage Discovery Dread Fear Lost
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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Adjective Adverb Death Declare Hands
Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
JOSEPH HELLER

Government Industry Private Togetherness
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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Country Crazy Executive Scare
Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.
JOSEPH HELLER

Air Exercise Fresh Meet Opportunity People Prostitution Trouble
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.
JOSEPH HELLER

Acceptance Bad Luck Destiny Injustice
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
JOSEPH HELLER

Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
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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Book Conflict Deal Fashion Opinion Rude Subject
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
JOSEPH HELLER

Deep Mad Medal Men Reward

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