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.
JOSEPH HELLERDeath to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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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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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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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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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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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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Insanity is contagious.
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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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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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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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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 wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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