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...
Who's they? He wanted to know. Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?Every one of them, Yossarian told him.Every one of whom?Every one of whom do you think?I haven't any idea.Then ho...
There were usually not nearly as many sick people inside the hospital as Yossarian saw outside the hospital, and there were generally fewer people inside the hospital who were seriously sick. There wa...
It takes very little to make us [women] happy, and more than is contained in heaven and earth to keep us that way
Death was irreversible, he suspected, and he began to think he was going to lose
Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?" "I do," Dunbar told him. "Why?" Clevinger asked. "What else is there?
[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.
Politically, he was a humanitarian who did know right from left and was trapped uncomfortably between the two. He was constantly defending his Communist friends to his right-wing enemies and his right...
He was never without misery, and never without hope.
There was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to.
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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 position to appreciate it.
Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.
Tu sei pazzo!
There is no light. I don't feel like starting my generator. I used to get a big kick out saving people's lives. Now I wonder what the hell's the point, since they all have to die anyway.Dr. Stubbs Cat...
When I was a kid, I used to walk around all day with crab apples in my cheeks. One in each cheek.I threw the book down. It was impossible to read anything with a guy like Orr around you.Why? I finally...
Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage....
All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars.
From now on I'm thinking only of me.Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that way.Then, said Yossarian, I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel a...
When people disagreed with him he urged them to be objective.
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