For war there is always enough. It’s peace that’s expensive.
JOSEPH HELLERJust because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.
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The question is: what is a sane man to do in an insane society?
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Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
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Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and wholesome exercise, and it keeps her out of trouble.
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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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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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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody
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Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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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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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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They agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
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Rise above principal and do what’s right.
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When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it.
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I wouldn’t want to live without strong misgivings.
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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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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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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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I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life.
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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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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind.
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Remember that everyone deserves some fun during working hours.
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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