Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
JOSEPH HELLERHe was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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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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I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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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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Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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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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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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