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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Joseph Heller

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
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Epitome She Smile Sorrow Time
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
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
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
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
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise
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
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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Broken Heart Miracle Time

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

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