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"Misery suffered did not justify misery to come."
"While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done."
"A saw by itself holds no value, but when coupled with your labor can clear forests."
"If you wrote something for which someone sent you a cheque, if you cashed the cheque and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented."
"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot, reading is the creative center of a writer's life, you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you."
"Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure."
"I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it."
Explore more quotes by Joseph Heller
"Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them."
"When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as "Catch-22" I'm tempted to reply, "Who has?""
"Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more."
"Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry."
"I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long."
"I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private individuals."
"Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them."
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