Rise above principal and do what’s right.
JOSEPH HELLERI’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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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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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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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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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 don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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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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I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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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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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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