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

Joseph Heller

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
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
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.
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Children Favor Influence Liberation Parents 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
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
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
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’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
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Life Negative Responsiblity Run Save
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
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
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
I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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Broken Heart Miracle Time
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
Insanity is contagious.
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Contagious Insane One Liner
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace

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

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