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God Knows by Joseph Heller3,478 ratings, 3.81 average rating, 226 reviews
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"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."
― God Knows
― God Knows
"But how can one be warm alone?"
― God Knows
― God Knows
"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?"
― God Knows
― God Knows
"First impressions die slowly, bad impressions take even longer"
― God Knows
― God Knows
"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."
― God Knows
― God Knows
"You've got to have a God. Without God, you might turn to something really crazy, like witchcraft, or religion."
― God Knows
― God Knows
"It takes very little to make us [women] happy, and more than is contained in heaven and earth to keep us that way"
― God Knows
― God Knows
"Moses has the Ten Commandments, it's true, but I've got much better lines - King David"
― God Knows
― God Knows
"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."
― God Knows
― God Knows
"But she was a baneful person who spoiled my good days and rejoiced in my bad and who would never allow herself to extol or admire me or to view me as others did in the mythic dimensions of a hero king, or as a huge, monumental figure immortalized on a great pedestal of white marble. And that's another thing..."
― God Knows
― God Knows
"But she was a baneful person who spoiled my good days and rejoiced in my bad and who would never allow herself to extol or admire me or to view me as others did in the mythic dimensions of a hero king, or as a huge, monumental figure immortalized on a great pedestal of white marble. And that's another thing.. If anything, the Michelangelo statue of Moses in Rome looks more like me in my prime than the one in Florence does of me at any phase in my life. Everybody says so. I wasn't that large, naturally, and I'm not made of marble. I have no scar on my shin or horns jutting from my head. But I had that same superior and sublimely articulated physique and that same unquestionable aura of immortal greatness and strength until I began to lessen with age and they would let me go no more out to battle."
― God Knows
― God Knows
"Jerusalem is a very small town. And Bathsheba was a very loud woman. Maybe even Uriah knew."
― God Knows
― God Knows
"But we were powerless too, because they did have those chariots and archers and suits of armor, and until me, no Israelite could win a pitched battle on low ground without employing some clandestine or psychological device or receiving supernatural assistance in the form of some rare aberration of nature."
― God Knows
― God Knows
"And both are gone. And ironically, I'm drawn to repeat my well known apothegm of futility: that, just as the person who wants praise will never be satisfied with praise, the person who wants love cannot be satisfied with love. No want is ever fulfilled. And I therefore still don't know whether it is better to fear God and keep His commandments or to curse God and die. Fortunately, I've been able to get by very neatly without doing either."
― God Knows
― God Knows
"Show me anything whereof it may be said, "See, this is new," and I will show you it hath been."
― God Knows
― God Knows
"Any possibilities that I might be mistaken about her humor were dispelled by her first words."
― God Knows
― God Knows
"Celibacy has few pleasures. I know, but marriage has many pains. And harems are not always what they're cracked up to be. Rarely in the long run are they worth the cost and endless bother... And if marriage has many pains, polygamous marriage multiplies those pains to an unforeseeable extent with the commotion generating from squabbling wives and contending offspring."
― God Knows
― God Knows
"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."
― God Knows
― God Knows
"A martyred look accompanied this reply, belying her air of passionless indifference."
― God Knows
― God Knows
"And I know I never went as far against any of my brothers as Joseph did against all of his; but mine, of course, never went that far with me. They mocked, they growled, the ordered, they nagged, criticized, and interfered. But they never seized me with the intent to kill me, imprisoned me in a well, and sold me instead into slavery to a caravan of traders crossing down through Canaan from Gilead into Egypt. They did not come with my bloodied coat to my thunderstruck father and report I had been eaten by an animal. That part was ugly."
― God Knows
― God Knows
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