From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
JOSEPH HELLERInsanity is contagious.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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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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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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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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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after 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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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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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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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 never without misery, and never without hope.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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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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I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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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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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Insanity is contagious.
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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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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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