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Consciously, sir, consciously, Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. I hate them consciously.

Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation?

He smiled ostentatiously to show himself reasonable and nice. I'm not saying that to be cruel and insulting, he continued with cruel and insulting delight.

Superman?' Clevinger cried. 'Superman?' 'Supraman,' Yossarian corrected.

He coughed quietly, gingerly, and dabbed

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. Yossarian

the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag of a humpbacked nose that came charging out of his face wrathfully like a Big Ten fullback.

It's only that I feel an injustice has been committed. Why should I have somebody else's malaria and you have my dose of clap?

The Texan wanted everybody in the ward to be happy but Yossarian and Dunbar. He was really very sick.

If you run into trouble, just tell everybody that the security of the country requires a strong domestic Egyptian-cotton speculating industry.

It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian say the chaplain he fell madly in love with him.

War ... it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

he disapproved of Adolf Hitler, who had done such a great job of combating un-American activities in Germany.

mean there's a catch?" "Sure there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy." 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.

Some men were born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. Major Major was all three.

Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy.' 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's nothing wrong with nightmares," Hungry Joe answered. "Everybody has nightmares." Yossarian thought he had him. "Every night?" he asked. "Why not every night?" Hungry Joe demanded. And suddenly it all made sense. Why not every night, indeed? It made sense to cry out in pain every night.

A martyred look accompanied this reply, belying her air of passionless indifference.

At the time, Heller was also working on his first novel, Catch-18. New World Writing published the first chapter in 1955; three years later Heller had a contract to publish the novel with Simon & Schuster. To avoid confusion with Leon Uris's 1961 novel Mila 18, Catch-18 was changed to Catch-22 before its publication in the same year.

Don't you see what that means? Now you can take me off combat duty and send me home. They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?" "Who else will go?

His greatest gift was resilience rather than brilliance, which just happened to be the quality of mind and heart that the American cause required.

The great sin of the originalists is not to harbor a political agenda but to claim they do not, and to base that claim on a level of historical understanding they demonstrably do not possess.

liability shield unlike any other in existence.

your problem or sickness, whatever it may be, must be caused by negative thoughts charged with fear and lodged in your subconscious mind, and