Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
JOSEPH HELLERHe was never without misery, and never without hope.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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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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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
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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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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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There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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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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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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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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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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