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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.

Joseph Heller

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
Where were you born?” “On a battlefield,” [Yossarian] answered. “No, no. In what state were you born?” “In a state of innocence.
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Born Innocence
He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Lack Self Made Success
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
There is no disappointment so numbing as someone no better than you achieving more.
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Achievement Disappointment Numb
I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
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Imagination Mercy Process Understand
Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
JOSEPH HELLER

Government Industry Private Togetherness
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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Enjoyment Except Literature
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
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

Children Favor Influence Liberation Parents War
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
They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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Agree Education Necessary People Possible Question
In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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Accident Failure Predict
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Trouble Writer Writing
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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Disagree Objective Urge
Insanity is contagious.
JOSEPH HELLER

Contagious Insane One Liner

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