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I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.

Joseph Heller

There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
JOSEPH HELLER

Achievement Disappointment Numb
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
JOSEPH HELLER

Epitome She Smile Sorrow Time
I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
JOSEPH HELLER

Country Crazy Executive Scare
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
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
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Die Inspirational Live Positive Worth
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
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
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
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
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
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
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
Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
JOSEPH HELLER

Government Industry Private Togetherness
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
JOSEPH HELLER

Enjoyment Except Literature

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