I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
JOSEPH HELLERFrankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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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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Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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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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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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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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You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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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 never without misery, and never without hope.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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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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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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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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