Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
JOSEPH HELLERThere is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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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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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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I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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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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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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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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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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I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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