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Rise above principal and do what’s right.

Joseph Heller

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
JOSEPH HELLER

Lack Self Made Success
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.
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Air Exercise Fresh Meet Opportunity People Prostitution Trouble
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
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
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
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
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
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
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
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
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
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

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