There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
JOSEPH HELLERProstitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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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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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Success 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.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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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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