History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
JOSEPH HELLERRemember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
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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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I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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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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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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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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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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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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While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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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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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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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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