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

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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Deep Mad Medal Men Reward
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
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
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
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
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
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
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
I’ve only had four ideas for a novel in my life, and I’ve written all of them.
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Ideas Life Novel Writing
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
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
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
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Born Innocence
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
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 a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
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
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
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
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
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
Insanity is contagious.
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Contagious Insane One Liner
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society

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