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Insanity is contagious.

Joseph Heller

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
JOSEPH HELLER

Dreams Night
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
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
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 going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
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
Insanity is contagious.
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Contagious Insane One Liner
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
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
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
Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
JOSEPH HELLER

Government Industry Private Togetherness

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