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Yossarian decided to change the subject. Now you're changing the subject. he pointed out diplomatically. I'll bet I can name two things to be miserable about for every one you can name to be thankful for.

I really do admire you a bit. 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. - Colonel Korn

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.

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

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.

he knew how Christ must have felt as he walked through the world, like a psychiatrist through a ward full of nuts, like a victim through a prison full of thieves. What a welcome sight a leper must have been!

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

At the state university he took his studies so seriously that he was suspected by the homosexuals of being a Communist and suspected by the Communists of being a homosexual.

He coughed quietly, gingerly, and dabbed

Steal Captain Black's car," said Yossarian. "That's what I always do." "We can't steal anybody's car. Since you began stealing the nearest car every time you wanted one, nobody leaves the ignition on.

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.

Everyone agreed that Clevinger was certain to go far in the academic world. In short, Clevinger was one of those people with lots of intelligence and no brains

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

Jerusalem is a very small town. And Bathsheba was a very loud woman. Maybe even Uriah knew.

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.

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.

Imagine a man his age risking what little life he has for something so absurd as a country.

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

liability shield unlike any other in existence.

Your subconscious mind is principle and works according to the law of belief. You must know what belief is, why it works, and how it works.