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

Joseph Heller

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The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Mad Paranoid
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
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
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
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
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
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
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
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
Insanity is contagious.
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Contagious Insane One Liner
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise
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
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
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
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
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
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
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
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
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
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Alive Death Die Furious Life
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
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict

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

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