In a world in which success was the only virtue, he had resigned himself to failure.
If you run into trouble, just tell everybody that the security of the country requires a strong domestic Egyptian-cotton speculating industry.
I suppose it is just about impossible for someone like me to rebel anymore and produce any kind of lasting effect. I have lost the power to upset things that I had as a child; I can no longer change m...
Hungry Joe was crazy, and no one knew it better than Yossarian, who did everything he could to help him. Hungry Joe just wouldn’t listen to Yossarian. Hungry Joe just wouldn’t listen because he though...
How do you feel Yossarian?Fine. No, I'm very frightened.That's good, said Major Danby. It proves you're still alive. It won't be fun.Yossarian started out. Yes it will.
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...
Help!' he shrieked shrilly in a voice strangling in its own emotion, as the policemen carried him to the open doors in the rear of the ambulance and threw him inside. 'Police! Help! Police!' The doors...
He's back! He's back!Who's back? shouted someone else. Who is it?What does it mean? What should we do?Are we on fire?Get up and run, damn it! Everybody get up and run!
He made so many people uneasy. Everyone was always very friendly toward him, and no one was ever very nice; everyone spoke to him, and no one ever said anything.
He knew everything there was to know about literature, except how to enjoy it
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.
Group Headquarters was alarmed, for there was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. Colonel
Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation? What in the world was running...
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...
But Yossarian knew he was right, because, as he explained to Clevinger, to the best of his knowledge he had never been wrong.
But I'm afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees. That is the way the saying goes.
And between us now there is this continual underground struggle over something trivial and nebulous that won't abate and has lasted nearly as long as the two of us have known each other. I love you.
– 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...
The full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag of a humpbacked nose that came charging out of his face wrathfully like a Big Ten fullback.
You’ve been unable to adjust to the idea of war.''Yes, sir.''You have a morbid aversion to dying.