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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.

Joseph Heller

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
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
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
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
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
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
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
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Die Inspirational Live Positive Worth
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
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
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
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

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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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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