Rise above principal and do what’s right.
JOSEPH HELLERJust because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
More Joseph Heller Quotes
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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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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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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I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
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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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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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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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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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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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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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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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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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