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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.

Joseph Heller

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 villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
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
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
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
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
She was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled.
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Epitome She Smile Sorrow Time
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
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
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
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Deep Mad Medal Men Reward
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
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
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret

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