It's a real problem to decide whether it's more boring to do something boring than to pass along everything boring that comes in to somebody else and then have nothing to do at all.
It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian say the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
In short, he was a dope. He often looked to Yossarian like one of those people hanging around modern museums with both eyes together on one side of a face. It was an illusion, of course, generated by...
I'm cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I'm cold.''There, there,' Yossarian mumbled mechanically in a voice too low to be heard. 'There, there.'Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt go...
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 w...
He was like a man who had grown frozen with horror once and had never come completely unthawed.
The important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know wha...
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
Лейтенанту Шейскопфу отчаянно хотелось завоевать первое место на параде, и, обдумывая, как это сделать, он просиживал за столом чуть не до рассвета, в то время как его жена, охваченная любовным трепет...
Was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
You’re inches away from death every time you go on a mission. How much older can you be at your age?
Yossarian was in love with the maid in the lime-colored panties because she seemed to be the only woman left he could make love to without falling in love with.
Why,' swore Yossarian at him approvingly, 'you evil-eyed, mechanically-aptituded, disaffiliated son of a -----, did you walk around with anything in your cheeks?''I didn't,' Orr said, 'walk around wit...
Why don't you ever whip me? she pouted one night.Because I haven't the time, he snapped at her impatiently. I haven't the time. Don't you know there's a parade going on?
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mat...
Well, maybe it's true, Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions to make it seem long. But in that event, who wants one...
Victory gave us such insane delusions of grandeur that we helped start a world war we hadn’t a chance of winning. But now that we are losing again, everything has taken a turn for the better, and we w...
Valakinek egyszer valamit csinálnia kellett. Minden áldozat bűnös, és minden bűnös áldozat is, de egyszer valakinek meg kellene már törni az öröklött szokásoknak ezt a tetves láncolatát, ami előbb-utó...
Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted toask questions were those who never did.
They're trying to kill me, Yossarian told him calmly.No one's trying to kill you, Clevinger cried.Then why are they shooting at me? Yossarian asked.They're shooting at everyone, Clevinger answered. Th...