God Knows
Joseph Heller
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.”
“But how can one be warm alone?”
“That's another thing that pisses me off about that Michelangelo statue of me in Florence. He's got me standing there uncircumcised! Who the fuck did he think I was?”
“You’ve got to have a God. Without God, you might turn to something really crazy, like witchcraft, or religion.”
“Some Promised Land. The honey was there, but the milk we brought in with our goats. To people in California, God gives a magnificent coastline, a movie industry, and Beverly Hills. To us He gives sand. To Cannes He gives a plush film festival. We get the PLO. Our winters are rainy, our summers hot. To people who didn't know how to wind a wristwatch He gives underground oceans of oil. To us He gives hernia, piles, and anti-Semitism.”
“First impressions die slowly, bad impressions take even longer”
“Moses has the Ten Commandments, it's true, but I've got much better lines - King David”
“It takes very little to make us [women] happy, and more than is contained in heaven and earth to keep us that way”
“The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it. Being at war, however, always has been.”
“Who could conceive back then the enormity of Saul's brooding hatred for me or comprehend the threatening paradox that the more I accomplished to gratify him, the greater would grow the jealousy and wrath he felt toward me? I know I was hurt when I saw him so angry with me that first time, and I was flustered in a queer and guilt-ridden way each time I found him so thereafter.”
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Book Keywords:
israel, security, hatred, women, jew, jews, loneliness, anger, betrayal
