While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
JOSEPH HELLERHe was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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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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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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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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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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I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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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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Insanity is contagious.
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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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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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The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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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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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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