It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
JOSEPH HELLERBe glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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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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Insanity is contagious.
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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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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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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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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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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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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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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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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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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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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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