The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
JOSEPH HELLERBe glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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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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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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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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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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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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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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I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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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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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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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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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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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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