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Joseph Heller

The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
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
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
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
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
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
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
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
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 is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb

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