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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

Joseph Heller

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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Children Favor Influence Liberation Parents War
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
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Change Confidence Courage Discovery Dread Fear Lost
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
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
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
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
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
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
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 people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
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
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
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

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