It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
JOSEPH HELLERHe was never without misery, and never without hope.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
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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’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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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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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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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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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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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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