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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

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.
JOSEPH HELLER

Change Confidence Courage Discovery Dread Fear Lost
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
JOSEPH HELLER

Boy Grow Up Little
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
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
Insanity is contagious.
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Contagious Insane One Liner
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
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
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
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
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
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
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
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
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
JOSEPH HELLER

Enemy Kill War

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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