They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
JOSEPH HELLERThe villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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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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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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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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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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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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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Insanity is contagious.
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All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
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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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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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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 don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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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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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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I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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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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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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