Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

Joseph Heller

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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
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Epitome She Smile Sorrow Time
Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
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Acceptance Bad Luck Destiny Injustice
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
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Mad Paranoid
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
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
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
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
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
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
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
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
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
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
Insanity is contagious.
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Contagious Insane One Liner
It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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Dead Difference War Win
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
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise

Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.

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