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Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

Joseph Heller

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

Enjoyment Except Literature
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
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise
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
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
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
When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
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
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
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Mad Paranoid
Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.
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Die Inspirational Live Positive Worth
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur.
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Change Confidence Courage Discovery Dread Fear Lost
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
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
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
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
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
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 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
Insanity is contagious.
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Contagious Insane One Liner
The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain

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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