Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs divorce fornication bullying travel meditation medication depression neurosis and suicide. With failure comes fa...
Oh well," McWatt sang, "what the hell.
You just came out of the hospital ten days ago, Milo reminded him reprovingly. You can’t keep running into the hospital every time something happens you don’t like. No, the best thing to do is fly the...
Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. That's some catch, that Catch-22, he observed. It's the best there is, Doc Danee...
Yossarian was moved by such intense pity for his poverty that he wanted to smash his pale, sad, sickly face with his fist and knock him out of existence because he brought to mind all the pale, sad, s...
Where were you born?On a battlefield, [Yossarian] answered.No, no. In what state were you born?In a state of innocence.
Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.
Through the lavender gloom clouding the entrance of the operations tent, Yossarian glimpsed Chief White Halfoat, diligently embezzling whiskey rations, forging the signatures of nondrinkers and pourin...
There were billions of conscientious body cells oxidating away day and night like dumb animals at their complicated job of keeping him alive and healthy, and every one was a potential traitor and foe.
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 were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy an...
Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.'Yossarian knew wh...
Since he had nothing better to do well in, he did well in school.
Oly sok boldogtalanság van a világban, tűnődött, komoran meghajtva fejét a tragikus gondolat előtt, és ő mit sem tehet senki boldogtalansága ellen, legkevésbé a saját boldogtalansága ellen.
Major Major never sees anyone in his office while he's in his office.
Kraft was a skinny, harmless kid from Pennsylvania who wanted only to be liked, and was destined to be disappointed in even so humble and degrading an ambition. Instead, of being liked, he was dead, a...
Keep away, keep away, Hungry Joe screamed. I said keep away, keep away, you goddam stinking lousy son of a bitch. At least we found out what he dreams about, Dunbar observed wryly. He dreams about god...
It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian say the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.
I have a weakness for fresh eggs.
I don’t,’ she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. ‘But the God I don’t believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He’s not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.