I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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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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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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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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 I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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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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The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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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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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise 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 going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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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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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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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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