Read me back the last line. ‘Read me back the last line,’ read back the corporal who could take shorthand. Not my last line, stupid! the colonel shouted. Somebody else’s. ‘Read me back the last lin...
Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat.
Oh, they're there all right, Orr had assured him about the flies in Appleby's eyes after Yossarian's fist fight in the officers' club, although he probably doesn't even know it. That's why he can't se...
Now, where were we? Read me back the last line. ‘Read me back the last line,’ read back the corporal who could take shorthand. Not my last line, stupid! the colonel shouted. Somebody else’s. ‘Read...
Now you've given them hope, and they're unhappy. So the blame is all yours.
No one could recall who he was or what he had looked like, least of all Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren, who remembered only that a new officer had shown up at the operations tent just in time to b...
Nem is lenne normális, ha sohasem félne. Még a legbátrabb emberek is tapasztalják a félelmet. A harcban a legnagyobb feladattal akkor kerülünk szembe, amikor saját félelmünket kell legyőznünk.
Neki vannak problémái? Mit szóljak én? – Daneeka Doki lassú, gyászos szipogással folytatta. – Á, én nem panaszkodom. Tudom, hogy háború van. Tudom, hogy egy csomó embernek szenvedni kell majd értünk,...
Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise.
Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?
Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.
It’s a small wound. All we have to do is stop the bleeding, clean it out and put a few stitches in. But I’ve never had a chance to operate before. Which one is the scalpel? Is this one the scalpel?
It was truly a splendid structure, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his. There
It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.
In fact, though the books came slowly, he was a novelist to his bootlaces, an avid narrator who couldn’t stop the story once it had started, who felt the terrors of existence so acutely that he had to...
I've always depended very heavily on the good opinion of others.
I have some decades to spare. Do you know how long a year takes when it’s going away?
I did it to protect my good reputation in case anyone ever caught me walking around with crab apples in my cheeks. With rubber balls in my hands I could deny there were crab apples in my cheeks. Every...
I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.
His response to them [women] as sexual beings was one of frenzied worship and idolatry. They were lovely, satisfying, maddening manifestations of the miraculous, instruments of pleasure too powerful t...