"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."

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Source : Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

Joseph Heller

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“What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.”
“Im not advocating social Darwinism, I am witnessing actual Darwinism. If you are in a camp with a bunch of campers, and a bear attacks, you don't have to be faster than the bear. You only have to be faster than the slowest camper”
“I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.”
“Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes. When I watch a documentary, I can't help crying and then I think to myself, "Fiction can't compete with this." But when I mentioned this to a veteran manga artist friend of mine he said that "fiction brings salvation to characters in stories that would otherwise have no salvation at all." His words strengthened the conviction of my manga spirit.”
“To know one thing, you must know the opposite.”
“It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.”
“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”
“When calling for authenticity, we need to take seriously the brokenness and sinfulness of the human heart. If to be authentic means to be who we really are or to express what we really feel, then in most cases Iâ€™m going to vote for hypocrisy. Our prisons are filled with men and women who acted on their feelings and impulses. If authenticity is about being true to yourself, these individuals should be our models of inspiration.”

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