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Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.

Joseph Heller

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
I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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Freedom Live Strong
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
Well, he died. You don’t get any older than that.
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Broken Heart Die Old
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
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
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
The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Depression Insane Man Society
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
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
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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Inspirational One Liner Principle Right Rise
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 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
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Mad Paranoid
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature

Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.

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