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 was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret
He wondered how many people were destitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were b...
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...
They were four clean-cut kids who were having lots of fun, and they were driving Yossarian nuts. He could not make them understand that he was a crotchety old fogey of twenty-eight, that he belonged t...
Why are they going to disappear him?'I don't know.'It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good grammar.
You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate.Consciously, sir, consciously, Yossarian corrected in an...
All you've got to do is lie there a few minutes and die a little.
Clevinger was already on the way, half out of his chair with emotion, his eyes moist and his lips quivering and pale. As always occurred when he quarreled over principles in which he believed passiona...
Colonel Cargill, General Peckem’s troubleshooter, was a forceful, ruddy man. Before the war he had been an alert, hard-hitting, aggressive marketing executive. He was a very bad marketing executive. C...
Colonel Korn agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
Colonel Korn’s rule was a stroke of genius, Colonel Korn explained in his report to Colonel Cathcart. Under Colonel Korn’s rule, the only people permitted to ask questions were those who never did. So...
Csak egyetlenegyszer szeretném látni, hogy ezek a dolgok valahogyan egyenesbe jönnek, úgyhogy mindenki pontosan azt kapja meg, amire rászolgált. Visszaadná a hitemet ebben a világegyetemben.
Dear Mrs., Mr., Miss, or Mr. and Mrs. Daneeka: Words cannot express the deep personal grief I experienced when your husband, son, father, or brother was killed, wounded, or reported missing in action.
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...
For war there is always enough. It's peace that's expensive.
He wanted to write urgent love letters to her all day long and crowd the endless pages with desperate, uninhibited confessions of his humble worship and need with careful instructions for administerin...
He was working hard at increasing his life span. He did it by cultivating boredom.
Colonel Cargill was so awful a marketing executive that his services were much sought after by firms eager to establish losses for tax purposes. Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fu...
Colonel Cathcart stopped in his tracks. What atheists? he bellowed defensively, his whole manner changing in a flash to one of virtuous and belligerent denial. There are no atheists in my outfit! Athe...
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