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.
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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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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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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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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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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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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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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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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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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Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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