Like all the other officers at Group Headquarters except Major Danby, Colonel Cathcart was infused with the democratic spirit: he believed that all men were created equal, and he therefore spurned all...
Last night in the latrine. Didn't you whisper that we couldn't punish you to that other dirty son of a bitch we don't like? What's his name?Yossarian, sir, Lieutenant Scheisskopf said.Yes, Yossarian....
Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. Yossarian knew what he meant. That’s not what I meant, Doc Daneeka said as Yossarian began scratching his back.
It was a vile and muddy war, and Yossarian could have lived without it—lived forever, perhaps. Only a fraction of his countrymen would give up their lives to win it, and it was not his ambition to be...
It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
In the morning he stepped from his tent looking haggard, fearful and guilt-ridden, an eaten shell of a human building rocking perilously on the brink of collapse.
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...
His response to them as sexual beings was one of frenzied worship and idolatry. They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous, instruments of pleasure too powerful to be mea...
He was a spry, suave and very precise general who knew the circumference of the equator and always wrote enhanced when he meant increased. He was a prick.
He felt imprisoned in an airplane. In an airplane there was absolutely no place in the world to go except to another part of the airplane.
He felt imprisoned in an airplane. In an airplane there was absolutely no place in the world to go except to another part of the airplane. Doc Daneeka had been told that people who enjoyed climbing in...
Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so much madness. And it was urgent that he did, for he knew his life wa...
Everyone agreed that Clevinger was certain to go far in the academic world. In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains,
Elhatározta, hogy örökké fog élni, vagy belehal a próbálkozásba, és számára a bevetésnek egyetlen célja volt, éspedig az, hogy élve térjen vissza.
mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.
… everyone knew that sin was evil, and that no good could come from evil. But he did feel good; he felt positively marvellous. Consequently, it followed logically that telling lies and defecting from...
– Lehet, hogy egy hosszú életet tényleg sok kellemetlen körülménnyel kell megtölteni, ha azt akarjuk, hogy hosszúnak látsszon. De ha így van, kinek kell? – Nekem – mondta neki Dunbar. – Miért? – kérde...
You have to be insane before they will let you fly no more missions, but the fact that you want to fly no more missions is proof that you are not insane.
Trying to evade the people who frighten us. We come to work, have lunch, and go home. We goose-step in and goose-step out, changing our partner and wander all about, sashay around for a pat on the hea...
You've got flies in your eyes. That's why you can't see them.