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Joseph Heller

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
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
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret
Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Alive Death Die Furious Life
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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Government Industry Private Togetherness
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
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
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
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
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
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
The laws of nature are only as immutable as the minds which promote them. Ignorance of the law is 9/10ths of the law. Just because you aren’t paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you.
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Ignorance Law Mind Nature Paranoid Promote
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
While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
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Deal Greatness Important Work
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

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