When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
JOSEPH HELLERYou’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.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
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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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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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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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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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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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Insanity is contagious.
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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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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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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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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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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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The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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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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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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