Rise above principal and do what’s right.
JOSEPH HELLERI wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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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.
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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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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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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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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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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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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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The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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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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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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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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Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
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