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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Joseph Heller

Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Deep Mad Medal Men Reward
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
JOSEPH HELLER

Boy Grow Up Little
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
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
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
JOSEPH HELLER

Die Inspirational Live Positive Worth
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
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
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
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
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
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
JOSEPH HELLER

Broken Heart Miracle Time
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
JOSEPH HELLER

Enjoyment Except Literature
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
JOSEPH HELLER

Rain Wet

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

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Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

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