Every writer I know has trouble writing.
JOSEPH HELLERNever quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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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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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
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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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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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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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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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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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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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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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