This stuff is better than cotton candy, really it is. It’s made out of real cotton. Yossarian, you’ve got to help me make the men eat it. Egyptian cotton is the finest cotton in the world.
Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. 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. Eve...
He was pinched perspinngly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions to problems he was unwilling to dismiss as unsolvable. He was never without misery, and never witho...
I get the willies when I see closed doors.
And he knew something else as a social evolutionist that he might stress someday in his 'Every Change Is for the Worse' should he ever find time to write it: Gold knew that the most advanced and penul...
My fish dream is a sex dream.
Some Promised Land. The honey was there, but the milk we brought in with our goats. To people in California, God gives a magnificent coastline, a movie industry, and Beverly Hills. To us He gives sand...
The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. 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...
Catch-22 says they have the right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something...
Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.
As far back as Yossarian could recall, he explained to Clevinger with a patient smile, somebody was always hatching a plot to kill him. There were people who cared for him and people who didn't, and t...
He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.
People have a right to do anything that's not forbidden by law, and there's no law against lying to you.
— А как вы считаете, — осторожно, с мягкой, вкрадчивой улыбкой спросил майор Сэндерсон, штатный психиатр, присланный полковником к Йоссариану, — почему полковник Ферридж нашел ваши сны отвратительными...
You know, one good apple can spoil the rest, Colonel Korn concluded with conscious irony.
I really do admire you a bit. You're an intelligent person of great moral character who has taken a very courageous stand. I'm an intelligent person with no moral character at all, so I'm in an ideal...
I think I’d like to live like a vegetable and make no important decisions. What kind of vegetable, Danby? A cucumber or a carrot. What kind of cucumber? A good one or a bad one? Oh, a good one, of cou...
First impressions die slowly, bad impressions take even longer
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