You see? Imagine a man his age risking what little life he has left for something so absurd as a country.' Nately was instantly up in arms again. 'There is nothing so absurd about risking your life fo...
You pompous, rotund, neighborly, vacuous, complacent... - Yossarian
You make the bribe big enough and they’ll find you. Just make sure you do everything right out in the open. Let everyone know exactly what you want and how much you’re willing to pay for it. The first...
Yossarian sorba vette az összes férfit, nőt és gyermeket, akiket életében megismert, és akik azóta meghaltak. Megpróbált visszaemlékezni az összes katonára, és fölidézte az összes öregember képmását,...
Yossarian marveled that children could suffer such barbaric sacrifice without evincing the slightest hint of fear or pain. He took for granted that they did submit so stoically. If not, he reasoned, t...
When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.
Under Colonel Korn's rule, the only people permitted toask questions were those who never did.
They think that they’re smart and that the rest of us are dumb.
They couldn’t touch him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Deirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the n...
They couldn't him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Dreirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nighti...
They began to invent humourless, glum jokes of their own and disastrous rumours about the destruction awaiting them at Bologna.Yossarian sidled up drunkenly to Colonel Korn at the officers' club one n...
They [the dying in hospitals] did not blow up in mid-air like Kraft or the dead man in Yossarian's tent, or freeze to death in the blazing summertime the way Snowden had frozen to death after spilling...
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22....
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was craz...
The soldier who saw everything twice nodded weakly and sank back on his bed. Yossarian nodded weakly too, eyeing his talented roommate with great humility and admiration. He knew he was in the presenc...
The only one who lived with the chaplain in his clearing in the woods was Corporal Whitcomb, his assistant. Corporal Whitcomb, an atheist, was a disgruntled subordinate who felt he could do the chapla...
The important thing is to keep them pledging,' he explained to his cohorts. 'It doesn't matterwhether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what...
The enemy, retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. Yossarian
The colonel dwelt in a vortex of specialists who were still specializing in trying to determine what was troubling him. They hurled lights in his eyes to see if he could see, rammed needles into nerve...