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.
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...
I’d rather have peanut brittle crumbs on my face than flies in my eyes, Havermeyer retorted.
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 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.
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...
If you run into trouble, just tell everybody that the security of the country requires a strong domestic Egyptian-cotton speculating industry.
I wouldn't want to live without strong misgivings.
I see everything twice!
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...
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 [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...
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 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 had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
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...
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?
Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On the other hand, everyone knew that sin was evil and that no good could come from evil. But he did feel good; he felt posit...
Clevinger is a very bright guy, a Harvard man, who knows everything about literature except how to enjoy it.