For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
JOSEPH HELLERHe was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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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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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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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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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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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.
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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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I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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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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Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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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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