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

Joseph Heller

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

Enjoyment Except Literature
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
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
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
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
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
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
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
The enemy is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.
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Enemy Kill War
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
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
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
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
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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Country Dare Exercise Freedom Independence Traditonal

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