Joseph Heller Quotes
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My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of someone who struggled with things like that, you look for the common thread. Is there a pattern? Is there an inheritance of pathology in some way? That haunts me.
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I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.
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Im attracted to things that are challenging and fun and interesting, and it certainly seems that audiences enjoy them as well.
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I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.
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We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.
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Once you start messing with psychological well-being, we get more and more messed up.
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Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.
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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
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As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.
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The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.
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Well, subconsciously I suppose some things must stick but I'm not influenced consciously by them.
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I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts.
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Do you recall what was revealed the day the music died?
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Well, you're expelling us aren't you?" said Ron. "Not today, Mr. Weasley." Snape looked as though Christmas had been canceled.
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Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
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You can't sweeten the well by painting the pump.
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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
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Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.
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Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
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That's what I find so special: when you actually imagine something. But really, when it comes to you in a dream, and then you can bring it to life on the screen, it's very powerful.
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Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.
