Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
JOSEPH HELLERNever quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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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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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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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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I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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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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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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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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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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