There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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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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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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Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
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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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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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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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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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