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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.

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
You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.
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Appreciation Character Courage Intelligence Moral
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
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
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Ignorance Law Mind Nature Paranoid Promote
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Alive Death Die Furious Life
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
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
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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Country Crazy Executive Scare
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
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Life Negative Responsiblity Run Save
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict

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