He was never without misery, and never without hope.
JOSEPH HELLERHe was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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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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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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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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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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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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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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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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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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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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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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