When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
JOSEPH HELLERThe 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.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Insanity is contagious.
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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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Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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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 villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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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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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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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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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
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I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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