Insanity is contagious.
JOSEPH HELLERThere was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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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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He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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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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Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
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You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.
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I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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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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What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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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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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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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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