Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
JOSEPH HELLERI wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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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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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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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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Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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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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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Insanity is contagious.
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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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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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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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