The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
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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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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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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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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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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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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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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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