Joseph Heller Quotes
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
Joseph Heller
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Art is too serious to be taken seriously.
Ad Reinhardt
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
J. G. Ballard
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
Edmund White
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
Samantha Morton
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Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.
Kate Voegele
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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
Barry Larkin
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The eye of God ends up inside, so that, in the end, you take care of judgment and punishment yourself.
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
Salman Rushdie
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The culture of self-gratification and deregulation that began during the Clinton years and continued under President George W. Bush led to the bursting of one stock market bubble at the turn of the century and a full-scale financial crash less than a decade later.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.
Hanna Rosin
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As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.
Olivia Colman
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I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to connect and engage with friends as well.
Rachel Sklar
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Based on information from the Pentagon and estimates by analysts such as former Reagan Pentagon official Lawrence Korb, the costs of restoring destroyed and damaged Army and Marine Corps equipment is now estimated to be close to $30 billion, and it will grow by an additional $14 billion for every additional year we stay in Iraq. Even if these funds were available tomorrow, it would take years to restore the forces to the state they were in at the outset of the conflict.
Daniel Benjamin
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Sometimes, Shan's father had told him, people can live eighty and ninety years and only briefly, once or twice at most, glimpse the true things of life, the things that are the essence of the planet and of mankind. Sometimes people died without ever seeing a true thing. But, he had assured Shan, you can always find true things if you just know where to look.
Eliot Pattison
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I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.
Zoe Tapper
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mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
Joseph Heller
