Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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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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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
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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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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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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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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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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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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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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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