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Something Happened QUOTES

Something Happened QUOTES

1 " Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

2 " Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

3 " I get the willies when I see closed doors. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

4 " I have a feeling that someone nearby is soon going to find out something about me that will mean the end, although I can't imagine what that something is. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

5 " I frequently feel I'm being taken advantage of merely because I'm asked to do the work I'm paid to do. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

6 " It's a real problem to decide whether it's more boring to do something boring than to pass along everything boring that comes in to somebody else and then have nothing to do at all. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

7 " i know at last what i want to be when i grow up. when i grow up i want to be a little boy. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

8 " Maybe I am senile already and people are too kind to tell me. People are not kind and would tell me. (Maybe people have told me, and I'm too senile to remember). "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

9 " I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of lasting effect. I have lost the power to upset things that I had as a child; I can no longer change my environment or even disturb it seriously. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

10 " trying to evade the people who frighten us. We come to work, have lunch, and go home. We goose-step in and goose-step out, changing our partner and wander all about, sashay around for a pat on the head, and promenade home till we all drop dead. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

11 " That's what Paradise is- never knowing the difference. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

12 " And between us now there is this continual underground struggle over something trivial and nebulous that won't abate and has lasted nearly as long as the two of us have known each other. "I love you. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

13 " She listens to him with great intensity because she is paying no attention to him at all. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

14 " I don’t really like them, either (but I pretend I do). "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

15 " In the office in which I work there are five people of whom I am afraid. Each of these five people is afraid of four people (excluding overlaps), for a total of twenty, and each of these twenty people is afraid of six people, making a total of one hundred and twenty people who are feared by at least one person. Each of these one hundred and twenty people is afraid of the other one hundred and nineteen, and all of these one hundred and forty-five people are afraid of the twelve men at the top who helped found and build the company and now own and direct it. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

16 " Niet nikoho, kým by som bol radšej než sám sebou - aj keď sa v skutočnosti nemám rád a dokonca som si ani nie istý, kto som. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

17 " My act of rebellion would be absorbed like rain on an ocean and leave no trace. I would not cause a ripple. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

18 " When salesmen are doing well, there is pressure upon them to begin doing better, for fear they may start doing worse. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

19 " ...and hidden somewhere inside every bluff or quiet man and woman I know ... is the fully formed, but uncompleted, little boy or girl that once was and will always remain as it always has been, suspended lonesomely inside its own past, waiting hopefully, vainly, to resume, longing insatiably for company, pining desolately for that time to come when it will be safe and sane and possible to burst outside exuberantly, stretch its arms, fill its lungs with invigorating air, without fear at last, and call:
"Hey! Here I am. Couldn't you find me? Can't we be together now? "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened

20 " Nobody is sure anymore who really runs the company (not even the people who are credited with running it), but the company does run. "

― Joseph Heller , Something Happened