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

Joseph Heller

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
JOSEPH HELLER

Country Dare Exercise Freedom Independence Traditonal
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
JOSEPH HELLER

Enemy Kill War
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
JOSEPH HELLER

Adjective Adverb Death Declare Hands
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
JOSEPH HELLER

Mad Paranoid
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.
JOSEPH HELLER

Book Conflict Deal Fashion Opinion Rude Subject
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
JOSEPH HELLER

Accident Failure Predict
I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
JOSEPH HELLER

Imagination Mercy Process Understand
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
JOSEPH HELLER

Die Inspirational Live Positive Worth
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
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
JOSEPH HELLER

Broken Heart Die Old
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
JOSEPH HELLER

Boy Grow Up Little
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
JOSEPH HELLER

Epitome She Smile Sorrow Time
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
JOSEPH HELLER

Disagree Objective Urge
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
JOSEPH HELLER

Enjoyment Except Literature
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
JOSEPH HELLER

Villain
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
JOSEPH HELLER

Enough Expensive Peace War

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

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