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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

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
JOSEPH HELLER

Dreams Night
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
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

Life Negative Responsiblity Run Save
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
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
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Die Inspirational Live Positive Worth
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
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
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
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise
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
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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Ignorance Law Mind Nature Paranoid Promote
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
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War

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