As soon as there was profit, there were people who wanted to make it, more than they wanted to make anything else.
A nagging bitch of a doubt, burrowing painlessly inside a conscience that felt perfectly clear
You have a morbid aversion to dying.
You have a morbid aversion to dying. You probably resent the fact that you're at war and might get your head blown off any second.I more than resent it, sir. I'm absolutely incensed.You have deep-seat...
Why are they going to disappear him?'I don't know.'It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.
Who will marry me? No one wants a girl who is not a virgin.I will. I'll marry you.Ma non posso sposarti. And why can't you marry me?Perché sei pazzo!And why am I crazy?Perché vuoi sposarmi.Because I w...
When I learned you were sick , I finally felt old for the first time. You will recover, and I never will.
What would they do to me, he asked in confidential tones, if I refused to fly them?We'd probably shoot you, ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen replied.We? Yossarian cried in surprise. What do you mean, we? Since w...
What the hell are you getting so upset about?' he asked her bewilderedly in a tone of contrive amusement. 'I thought you didn't believe in God.'I don't,' she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. 'Bu...
What does the fish remind you of? Other fish. And what do the other fish remind you of? Other fish. Major Sanderson sat back disappointedly. Do you like fish? Not especially.
The dead man in Yossarian's tent was a pest, and Yossarian didn't like him, even though he had never seen him. Having him laying around all day annoyed Yossarian so much that he had gone to the orderl...
That was where he wanted to be if he had to be there at all, instead of hung out there in front like some goddam cantilevered goldfish in some goddam cantilevered goldfish bowl while the goddam foul b...
She destroyed egos by the score and made men hate themselves in the morning by the way she found them, used them, and tossed them aside.
Se trezi clipind din cauza unei ușoare dureri de cap și când deschise ochii văzu o lume clocotind într-un haos în care totul era în ordinea firească.
Men, Colonel Cargill began in Yossarian’s squadron, measuring his pauses carefully. You’re American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.
It's only that I feel an injustice has been committed. Why should I have somebody else's malaria and you have my dose of clap?
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 was possible that there were other vus of which he had never heard and that one of these other vus would explain succinctly the baffling phenomenon of which he had been both a witness and a part; i...
It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into...
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...