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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 Heller

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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Achievement Disappointment Numb
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
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
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
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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Country Dare Exercise Freedom Independence Traditonal
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
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
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Adjective Adverb Death Declare Hands
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
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
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
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
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
Insanity is contagious.
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Contagious Insane One Liner
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
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
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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Enemy Kill War
Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Alive Death Die Furious Life
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Mad Paranoid
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
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
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society

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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