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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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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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 lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
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My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment.
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A little careful pushing, and they’ll bury the hatchet all right-in each other.
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Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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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.
