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It's a wise person, I guess, who knows he's dumb, and an honest person who knows he's a liar. And it's a dumb person, I guess, whose convinced he's wise...-Bob Slocum

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Joseph Heller
Age: 76 †
Born: 1923
Born: May 1
Died: 1999
Died: December 10
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History was a trash bag of random coincidences torn open in a wind. Surely, Watt with his steam engine, Faraday with his electric motor, and Edison with his incandescent light bulb did not have it as their goal to contribute to a fuel shortage some day that would place their countries at the mercy of Arab oil.
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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 think that maybe inside any business, there is someone slowly going crazy
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They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.
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I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
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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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mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
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Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?
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When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
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In the long run, failure was the only thing that worked predictably. All else was accidental.
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I'll tell you what justice is. Justice is a knee in the gut from the floor on the chin at night sneaky with a knife brought up down on the magazine of a battleship sandbagged underhanded in the dark without a word of warning
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For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.
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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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All of our religions but the Judaic and the Greek think more of us dead than alive.
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