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There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.

Joseph Heller

Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.
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Air Exercise Fresh Meet Opportunity People Prostitution Trouble
Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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Deserve Fun Leadership Work
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
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
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Born Innocence
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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Bulling Difficult Drug Endurance Failure Meditation Success Suicide
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
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
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
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
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Drive Live Packet
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
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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