Joseph Heller Quotes
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
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In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
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Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.
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Biography lends to death a new terror.
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Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians.
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President Sadat of Egypt made a historic breakthrough in 1977 when he put an end to war and convinced both Egyptians and Israelis that he was ready to make peace. He broke down the walls of suspicion and prejudice.
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Giving opens the way for receiving.
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People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.
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As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.
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My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
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This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
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I've often found myself looking fondly at the Valentine's cultures in other countries. South Korea, for instance - where women must give chocolate to men.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
