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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.

Joseph Heller

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
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
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Mad Paranoid
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
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
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
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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Enemy Kill War
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
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
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
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Die Inspirational Live Positive Worth
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
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
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
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb

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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