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.
JOSEPH HELLER
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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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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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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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Insanity is contagious.
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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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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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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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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From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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