Joseph Heller Quotes
Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. I'm cold,' Snowden said. 'I'm cold.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
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With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.
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There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
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I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.
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I'm like a junkie for writing.
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I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.
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But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
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That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
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I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.
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I don't want to be taller; I want to be myself.
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I know that I basically have the same hair as Beaker from 'the Muppets.'
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Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.
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It was such a struggle for me to make it off welfare. I was getting $630 a month for myself and my children with no support from their fathers. The rent was $600 a month, and if you got a job, they took it out of your welfare.
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History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
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Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is not that he wished to leave certain perspectives open, nor to please everyone. It is rather that he was identifying himself, for his part, with a consciousness of self, of the world, and of others that was "strange" (the word is his) in a sense which is equally well destroyed by the rival explanations.
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Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all. I'm cold,' Snowden said. 'I'm cold.
