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.
JOSEPH HELLERJust because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy 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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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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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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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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Insanity is contagious.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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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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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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