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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Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.
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Every writer I know has trouble writing.
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Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
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He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
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He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.
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Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.
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I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service.
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I think in every country that there is at least one executive who is scared of going crazy.
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Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war - for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
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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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Some people are born mediocre, some people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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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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The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
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We do have a zeal for laughter in most situations, give or take a dentist.
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Whe 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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When I grow up I want to be a little boy.
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