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

Joseph Heller

History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
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
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
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
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
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’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
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 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
You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.
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Appreciation Character Courage Intelligence Moral
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
While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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Deal Greatness Important Work
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
They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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Agree Education Necessary People Possible Question

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

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