I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
JOSEPH HELLERMankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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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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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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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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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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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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I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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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 grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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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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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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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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There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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