Catch-22 did not exist, he was positive of that, but it made no difference. What did matter was that everyone thought it existed, and that was much worse, for there was no object or text to ridicule o...
Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn’t really crazy. There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that...
Clevinger had a mind, and Lieutenant Scheisskoph had noticed that people with minds tended to get pretty smart at times.
Clevinger is a very bright guy, a Harvard man, who knows everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
Clevinger was a troublemaker and a wise guy. Lieutenant Scheisskopf knew that Clevinger might cause even more trouble if he wasn't watched. Yesterday it was the cadet officers; tomorrow it might be th...
Colonel Cathcart had courage and never hesitated to volunteer his men for any target available.
Colonel Cathcart is our commanding officer and we must obey him. Why don't you fly four more missions and see what happens?I don't want to.Suppose we let you pick your missions and fly milk runs? Majo...
Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own a...
Consciously, sir, consciously, Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. I hate them consciously.
Doc Daneeka gave him a pill and a shot that put him to sleep for twelve hours. When Yossarian woke up and went to see him, Doc Daneeka gave him another pill and a shot that put him to sleep for anothe...
Doc Daneeka was Yossarian's friend and would do just about nothing in his power to help him.
Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly. He had figured out that a single hour on the skeet-shooting range with people like Havermeyer and Appleby...
Everyone was always very friendly toward him, and no one was ever very nice; everyone spoke to him, and no one ever said anything.
Everyone was elated with this turn of events, most of all Colonel Cathcart, who was convinced he had won a feather in his cap. He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite...
Fortunately, just when things were blackest, the war broke out.
Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least two others of greater ability, better, and higher intelligence who, by comp...
Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation? What in the world was running...
He began to wonder with genuine concern just what sort of shithead the Pentagon had foisted on him.
He could not make them understand that...having a good time bored him and was not worth the effort.
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt.
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