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There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.

Joseph Heller

In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
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
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
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
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
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
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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Air Exercise Fresh Meet Opportunity People Prostitution Trouble
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
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
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
JOSEPH HELLER

Broken Heart Die Old
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
JOSEPH HELLER

Enjoyment Except Literature

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