Yossarian left money in the old woman’s lap—it was odd how many wrongs leaving money seemed to right—and
When I was a kid, Orr replied, I used to walk around all day with crab apples in my cheeks. One in each cheek.... A minute passed. Why? [Yossarian] found himself forced to ask finally.Orr tittered tri...
Vannak, akik középszerűnek születnek, vannak, akik elérik a középszerűséget, és vannak, akik nyögnek a középszerűség lármájában.
The leader of this team of doctors was a dignified, solicitous gentleman who held one finger up directly in front of Yossarian and demanded, How many fingers do you see? Two, said Yossarian. How many...
The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with i...
Someone had to do something sometime. Every victim was a culprit, every culprit a victim, and somebody had to stand up sometime to try to break the lousy chain of inherited habit that was imperiling t...
She acts like she don't like youShe doesn't like anyoneShe likes Capitan Black, Orr reminded.That's because he treats her like dirt. Anyone can get a girl that way
Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't,
Only a fraction of his countrymen would give up their lives to win it (the war), and it was not his ambition to be among them. To die or not to die, that was the question, and Clevinger grew limp tryi...
Now, where were we? Read me back the last line. ‘Read me back the last line,’ read back the corporal who could take shorthand.
I’d be the last colonel in the world to order you to go to that U.S.O. show and have a good time, but I want every one of you who isn’t sick enough to be in a hospital to go to that U.S.O. show right...
In a way the C.I.D. man was pretty lucky, because outside the hospital the war was still going on.Men went mad and were rewarded with medals. All over the world, boys on every side of the bomb line we...
His goading remained gentle. Rome was destroyed, Greece was destroyed, Persia was destroyed, Spain was destroyed. All great countries are destroyed. Why not yours? How much longer do you really think...
He wondered often how he would ever recognize the first chill, flush, twinge, ache, belch, sneeze, stain, lethargy, vocal slip, loss of balance or lapse of memory that would signal the inevitable begi...
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive. The
He felt awkward because she was going to murder him.
Haven't you got anything humorous that stays away from waters and valleys and God? I'd like to keep away from the subject of religion altogether if we can.The chaplain was apologetic. I'm sorry, sir,...
General Peckem even recommends that we send our men into combat in full-dress uniform so they'll make a good impression on the enemy when they're shot down.
Even when he cheated he couldn’t win, because the people he cheated against were always better at cheating too.
Bribery is against the law, and you know it. But it’s not against the law to make a profit, is it? So it can’t be against the law for me to bribe someone in order to make a fair profit, can it? No, of...