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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.

Joseph Heller

When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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Attempt Die Forever Live Man
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
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
Mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Acceptance Mankind Resilence Tomorrow
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
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
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
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
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
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
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
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
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
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
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
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
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
Men went mad and were rewarded with medals.
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Deep Mad Medal Men Reward
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 grow up I want to be a little boy.
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Boy Grow Up Little
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
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
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.
JOSEPH HELLER

Ashame Failure Trick
Let’s take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
JOSEPH HELLER

Drive Live Packet

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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