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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

Joseph Heller

Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Deep Mad Medal Men Reward
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 never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
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
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
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
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
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
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
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

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.

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