They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
JOSEPH HELLERThe question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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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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Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
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Insanity is contagious.
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You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.
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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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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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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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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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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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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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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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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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