"He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody."

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Source : 1961 Of Colonel Cargill. Catch-22, ch.3.

Joseph Heller

#Men Quotes #Self Quotes #Effort Quotes

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?”
“Some days you exist like the last speaker of an extinct language. These are the silences that litter the heart.”
“I have a lot of wonderful things happening in my life.”

Source : "'Survivor' Aras: I'd Be 'Stoked' if Vytas Won". ETonline Interview, www.etonline.com. November 21, 2013.
“The moon slid inexorably into its zenith, the shadows shrivelling to the feet of all that cast them, and as Rantel approached the hollow at the hem of the Twisted Woods he was treading in a pool of his own midnight.”

Source : Mervyn Peake (1995). “The Gormenghast Novels”, Overlook Books
“You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.”
“I also love lifestyles of the rich and famous and guess what? It`s not unusual for me to sit in bed with my laptop and glass of wine, clicking through real estate slide shows on the New York Times website; looking at ungodly expensive homes I could not ever possibly afford.”
“They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I believe I may so, looking into my own heart, and speaking as in the presence of God, that I have never know one moment of bitterness or resentment.”

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