What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
JOSEPH HELLERWhile none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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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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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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There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Insanity is contagious.
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Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
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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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