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I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

Joseph Heller

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
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.
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Goodness History Moral Teaching
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
Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.
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Civilization Earth End Peace
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
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
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
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
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
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 villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.
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Villain
Never quit a job as a matter of principle. You’ll always regret it.
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Job Principle Quit Regret
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
Insanity is contagious.
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Contagious Insane One Liner

I don’t understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

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