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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As you fall in love with friends, you want to spend more and more time with each other.
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It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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I had a very happy childhood, which is unsuitable if you're going to be an Irish writer.
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My mother was my biggest role model. She taught me to hate waste. We never wasted anything.
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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.
