I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
JOSEPH HELLERSuccess 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.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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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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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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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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I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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