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.
JOSEPH HELLERThere was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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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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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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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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I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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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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