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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

Joseph Heller

I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
JOSEPH HELLER

Ideas Life Novel Writing
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Die Inspirational Live Positive Worth
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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Country Dare Exercise Freedom Independence Traditonal
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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Angel Decent Heaven Human Impulse Poeple Saint Tragedy
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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Adjective Adverb Death Declare Hands
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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Dead Difference War Win
I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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Imagination Mercy Process Understand
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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Appreciation Character Courage Intelligence Moral
I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
JOSEPH HELLER

Life Negative Responsiblity Run Save
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.
JOSEPH HELLER

Acceptance Bad Luck Destiny Injustice
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
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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Ashame Failure Trick
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
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.
JOSEPH HELLER

Ignorance Law Mind Nature Paranoid Promote
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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Freedom People Question Want
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Deep Mad Medal Men Reward
Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
JOSEPH HELLER

Drive Live Packet
Insanity is contagious.
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Contagious Insane One Liner
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Epitome She Smile Sorrow Time
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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Book Conflict Deal Fashion Opinion Rude Subject
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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Dreams Night
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Achievement Born Medicore Mediocrity Men Sarcastic Thrust
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
JOSEPH HELLER

Job Principle Quit Regret

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

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