Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
JOSEPH HELLERBe glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Insanity is contagious.
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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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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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The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
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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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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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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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