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For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.

Joseph Heller

Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
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Born Innocence
Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.
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Bulling Difficult Drug Endurance Failure Meditation Success Suicide
Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Alive Death Die Furious Life
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
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Adjective Adverb Death Declare Hands
Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
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Government Industry Private Togetherness
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.
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Change Confidence Courage Discovery Dread Fear Lost
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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Freedom People Question Want
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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Country Dare Exercise Freedom Independence Traditonal
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
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Drive Live Packet
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Deep Mad Medal Men Reward
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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Dreams Night
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Epitome She Smile Sorrow Time

For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.

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