Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
JOSEPH HELLERWhat do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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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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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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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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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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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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