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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.

Joseph Heller

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
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret
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
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
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
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 wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Mad Paranoid
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
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
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
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
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
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Die Inspirational Live Positive Worth
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict

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