Joseph Heller Quotes
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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Jaipur, like Florence or Kyoto, other artisan-rich cities to which it roughly compares, has always been known for its craftsmanship.
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For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.
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If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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A democratically elected congressman of the United States of America should not be talking of an ethnic divide in Afghanistan, should not be interfering in Afghanistan's internal affairs.
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I realise that, strutting around in power corridors for political coverage, a journalist becomes half a politician.
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A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
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We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
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When political figures are shown on television or in movies, it's always the liberal Democrats that are shown to be humane, caring people.
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It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.
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You've got to believe you can get a result from the game.
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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I have this weird tropism for islands. Take me to an island as far from New York as I can possibly go.
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John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon.
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Any random group of thirty Vietnamese women will contain a dozen who make Julia Roberts look like Lyle Lovett.
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Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?
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No government functions without the grease of corruption.
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Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.
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Objection is when I say: this doesn't suit me. Resistance is when I make sure that what doesn't suit me never happens again.
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Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.
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Everybody is as unstable as water.
