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The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.

Joseph Heller

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
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
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
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
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
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
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
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Mad Paranoid
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
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.
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Angel Decent Heaven Human Impulse Poeple Saint Tragedy
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
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
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

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