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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When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
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Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen.
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When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
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No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.
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Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.
