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.
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.
Consciously, sir, consciously, Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. I hate them consciously.
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...
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...
Because he needed a friend so desperately, he never found one.
Az eszmények jók, de az emberek néha nem olyan jók.
And between us now there is this continual underground struggle over something trivial and nebulous that won't abate and has lasted nearly as long as the two of us have known each other. I love you.
All over the world, boys on every side of bomb line were laying down their lives for what they had been told was their country, and no one seemed to mind, least of all the boys who were laying down th...
After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better...
Symptoms: an unreasonable belief that everyone around him was crazy, a homicidal impulse to machine-gun strangers, retrospective falsification, an unfounded suspicion that people hated him and were co...
It was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
E piciorul meu.- Ba nu e deloc piciorul tau! replica sora Cramer. Acest picior apartine guvernului SUA.
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...
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...
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 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...
Because it's better to die on one's feet that+n live on one's knees, Nately retorted with triumphant and lofty convivtion. I guess you've heard that saying before.Yes, I certainly have, mused the trea...
All you've got to do is lie there a few minutes and die a little.
[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.