There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
JOSEPH HELLERWell, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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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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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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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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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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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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I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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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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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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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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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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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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