Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.

Joseph Heller

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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
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
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
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
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret
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
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
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
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
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
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
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Die Inspirational Live Positive Worth
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
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
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
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
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
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
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
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
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
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
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
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
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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Deserve Fun Leadership Work
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
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Change Confidence Courage Discovery Dread Fear Lost

Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.

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