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While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.

Joseph Heller

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

Bag Coincidence History Open Random Trash Wind
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
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
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Mad Paranoid
What do you do when it rains?” The captain answered frankly. “I get wet.
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Rain Wet
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
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Hope Misery
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.
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Ashame Failure Trick
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
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
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
For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
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Enough Expensive Peace War
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
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
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

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