He was polite to his elders, who disliked him. Whatever his elders told him to do, he did. They told him to look before he leaped, and he always looked before he leaped. They told him to never put off...
He mashed hundreds of cakes of GI soap into the sweet potatoes just to show that people have the taste of Philistines and don’t know the difference between good and bad.
He loved her manner of sleepy acquiescence when they lay on the beach at dusk. He drew solace and sedation from her nearness. He had a craving to touch her always, to remain always in physical communi...
He could not make them understand that...having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort.
Group headquarters was alarmed, for there is no telling what people might find out once they felt felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to. Colonel Cathcart sent Colonel Korn to stop it, and...
Finding Yossarian there in the hospital and seeing all that he's up to, with that enthusiastic blonde for a friend and that pregnant nurse who wants him to marry her, with Patrick Beach and his wife t...
Darling, we’re going to have a baby again,’ she would say to her husband.I haven’t the time,’ Lieutenant Scheisskopf would grumble petulantly. ‘Don’t you know there’s a parade going on?
Consciously, sir, consciously, Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. I hate them consciously.
Chaplain, he continued, looking up, we accuse you also of the commission of crimes and infractions we don’t even know about yet. Guilty or innocent? I don’t know, sir. How can I say if you don’t tell...
As soon as there was profit, there were people who wanted to make it, more than they wanted to make anything else.
America is not going to be destroyed he shouted passionately. Never? prodded the old man softly. Well... Nately faltered.
Aki már meghalt, annak édes mindegy, hogy ki nyeri meg a háborút.
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It was a sturdy and complex monument to his powers of determination. Yossarian...
Imagínese lo que es un hombre de su edad arriesgando la poca vida que le queda por algo tan absurdo como una patria.-Nately volvió a alzarse en son de guerra.-¡No tiene nada de absurdo arriesgar la vi...
You know, that might be the answer – to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That’s a trick that never seems to fail.
Yossarian went to bed early for safety and soon dreamed that he was fleeing almost headlong down an endless wooden staircase, making a loud, staccato clatter with his heels. Then he woke up a little a...
While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
Whatever his elders told him to do, he did. They told him to look before he leaped, and he always looked before he leaped. They told him never to put off until the next day what he could do the day be...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat,
Well, maybe it's true,' Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. '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 o...