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.
JOSEPH HELLERDestiny 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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It doesn’t make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who’s dead.
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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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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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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She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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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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Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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