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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

Joseph Heller

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
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
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
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Drive Live Packet
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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Dreams Night
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
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
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
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
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
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
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
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
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

Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

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