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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.

Joseph Heller

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Deep Mad Medal Men Reward
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
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
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
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Alive Death Die Furious Life
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
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
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
I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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Ideas Life Novel Writing
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
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Achievement Born Medicore Mediocrity Men Sarcastic Thrust

Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.

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