Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
JOSEPH HELLERHe was never without misery, and never without hope.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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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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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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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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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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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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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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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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