Joseph Heller Quotes
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
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I've never so appreciated what actors do and how strange it is.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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I don't mind playing my music live. It's fun. But what my real passion is is writing music.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
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I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.
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Having an animal that you fix, knowing that you saved its life or you saved a pet - Like on a dog, these little kids will come, and their dog is just ready to die, and you do something, and they leave happy. The kids are happy, and the little puppy is licking your hand. Those are kind of neat feelings.
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There's thieves among us Painting the wallsAll kinds of lies, and liesI never told it all
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In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.
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There is a wisdom of the Head, and … there is a wisdom of the Heart.
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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
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If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.
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I'm in the middle of my sixth book, which is about animals at the Los Angeles Zoo.
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I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.
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The truth is the middle class is not only stagnant but it is my fear that, without sustained and focused action, it is at risk of disappearing.
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In the end, I'm lucky enough to travel the world and make albums and not have to worry about not having a job.
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In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices, their lack of morality and utter disbelief in cause and effect
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Everyone from my high school and junior college are now doctors and lawyers. I came from that kind of environment, but I chose to go on another path, even though I did promise my parents that I would get a degree. After that, I could do anything I wanted; that was the deal.
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The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living.
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Of course. Because at the Gallagher Academy, "precautions" usually equals "voluntary shock therapy".
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The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
