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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

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Achievement Born Medicore Mediocrity Men Sarcastic Thrust
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
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Freedom People Question Want
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Epitome She Smile Sorrow Time
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
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
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
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
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
Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Alive Death Die Furious Life
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
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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Deserve Fun Leadership Work
You’re an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I’m an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I’m in an ideal position to appreciate it.
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Appreciation Character Courage Intelligence Moral
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
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
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
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
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
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
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
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
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

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