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.
It sure is a pleasure not having Flume around in the mess hall any more. No more of that 'Pass the salt, Walt.'Or 'Pass the bread, Fred.'Or 'Shoot me a beet, Pete.
It was just before dawn during the Great Big Siege of Bologna, when tongueless dead men peopled the night hours like living ghosts and Hungry Joe was half out of his mind with anxiety because he had f...
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’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?
I’d rather have peanut brittle crumbs on my face than flies in my eyes, Havermeyer retorted.
I’m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I’m cold.''You’re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You’re going to be all right.''I’m cold,' Snowden said again in a frail, childlike...
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you
Just what the hell did you mean, you bastard, when you said we couldn't punish you? said the corporal who could take shorthand reading from his steno pad.All right, said the colonel. Just what the hel...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.
Man was matter. Drop him out of a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage.
Milo carefully said nothing when Major de Coverley stepped into the mess hall with his fierce and austere dignity the day he returned and found his way blocked by a wall of officers waiting in line to...
Moses has the Ten Commandments, it's true, but I've got much better lines - King David
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.
Shooting skeet eight hours a month was excellent training for them. It trained them to shoot skeet.
Sinking invalids blew kisses to him from windows. Aproned shopkeepers cheered ecstatically from the narrow doorways of their shops. Tubas crumped. Here and there a person fell and was trampled to deat...
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Even among men lacking all distinction he inevitably sto...
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity trust upon them.
Steal Captain Black’s car, said Yossarian. That’s what I always do. We can’t steal anybody’s car. Since you began stealing the nearest car every time you wanted one, nobody leaves the ignition on.
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