I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
JOSEPH HELLERWhen 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.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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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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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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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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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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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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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 think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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