For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
JOSEPH HELLERSomething 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.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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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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I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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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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Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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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 think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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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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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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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Insanity is contagious.
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