I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
JOSEPH HELLERI want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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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.
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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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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Insanity is contagious.
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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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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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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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There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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