When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
JOSEPH HELLERThere is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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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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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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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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Insanity is contagious.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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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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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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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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I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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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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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.
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