He could not make them shut-up; they were worse than women. They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed.
Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include tooth decay in His divine system of creation? Why in the world did He ever create pain?''Pain?' Lieutena...
Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.
For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.
Elhatározta, hogy örökké fog élni, vagy belehal a próbálkozásba, és számára a bevetésnek egyetlen célja volt, éspedig az, hogy élve térjen vissza.
Captain Flume was obsessed with the idea that Chief White Halfoat would tiptoe up to his cot one night when he was sound asleep and slit his throat open for him from ear to ear. Captain Flume had obta...
Being born with a sickly resemblance to Henry Fonda was the first of a long series of practical jokes of which destiny was to make Major Major the unhappy victim throughout his joyless life. Being bor...
Az eszmények jók, de az emberek néha nem olyan jók.
… 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...
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 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...
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...
Yossarian estaba comprometiendo sus tradicionales derechos de libertad e independencia con la osadía de ejercerlos.
What is a country? A country is a piece of land surrounded on all sides by boundaries, usually unnatural. Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germa...
What do you do when it rains?The captain answered frankly. I get wet.
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 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 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...