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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The Special Operations community is rooted in unconventional warfare.
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He who fears to weep, should learn to be kind to those who weep.
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Music is not a very stable business. You know it comes and it goes, and so does money. But your education stays with you for the rest of your life and when you have that education and you have nothing fall back on you can go and get a job anywhere.
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I like that free spirit where you can laugh together and argue. I love a writer's room.
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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.
