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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.

Joseph Heller

The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
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
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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Freedom People Question Want
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Deep Mad Medal Men Reward
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
Insanity is contagious.
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Contagious Insane One Liner
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
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
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
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
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
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

It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.

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