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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

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
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
Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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Deserve Fun Leadership Work
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
They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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Agree Education Necessary People Possible Question
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
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Angel Decent Heaven Human Impulse Poeple Saint Tragedy
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
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Book Conflict Deal Fashion Opinion Rude Subject
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
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
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
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
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
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
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
JOSEPH HELLER

Drive Live Packet

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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