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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?

Joseph Heller

There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
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
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
Be glad you’re even alive. Be furious you’re going to die.
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Alive Death Die Furious Life
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
I don’t believe in miracles because it’s been a long time since we’ve had any.
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Broken Heart Miracle Time
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
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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Ashame Failure Trick
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Mad Paranoid
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret
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
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace

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