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Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.

Joseph Heller

What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
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.
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Acceptance Bad Luck Destiny Injustice
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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Deal Greatness Important Work
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
You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.
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Ashame Failure Trick
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
It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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Dead Difference War Win
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Mad Paranoid
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret
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
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Epitome She Smile Sorrow Time
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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Imagination Mercy Process Understand

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