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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c1aeaed | You know, that's my trouble," he groaned. "I never listen to anybody. Somebody kept telling me to put my headlights on, but I just wouldn't listen." | Joseph Heller | ||
| 94ca4eb | They [the dying in hospitals] did not blow up in mid-air like Kraft or the dead man in Yossarian's tent, or freeze to death in the blazing summertime the way Snowden had frozen to death after spilling his secret to Yossarian in the back of the plane. [...] They didn't take it out on the lam weirdly inside a cloud the way Clevinger had done. They didn't explode into blood and clotted matter. They didn't drown or get struck by lightning, man.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| feb4f65 | 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 Daneeka agreed." | Joseph Heller | ||
| 318d568 | It takes very little to make us [women] happy, and more than is contained in heaven and earth to keep us that way | Joseph Heller | ||
| 3bbf10d | The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on" | Joseph Heller | ||
| 042db72 | Szegyenkezve es remenykedve keresett uj kapcsolatokat, es mindig kiabrandult. Mert olyan elkeseredetten keresett baratokat, sohasem talalt egyet se. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 52e66c6 | Everyone was elated with this turn of events, most of all Colonel Cathcart, who was convinced he had won a feather in his cap. He greeted Milo jovially each time they met and, in an excess of contrite generosity, impulsively recommended Major Major for promotion. The recommendation was rejected at once at Twenty- seventh Air Force Headquaters by ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen, who scribbled a brusque, unsigned reminder that the Army had only one Maj.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 2518be6 | You pompous, rotund, neighborly, vacuous, complacent... - Yossarian | Joseph Heller | ||
| 82788f6 | Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own age who were doing the same thing even better. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 5c7791b | He's back! He's back!" "Who's back?" shouted someone else. "Who is it?" "What does it mean? What should we do?" "Are we on fire?" "Get up and run, damn it! Everybody get up and run!" | Joseph Heller | ||
| 64f9cfe | Kad sam bio klinac - odvrati Orr - hodao sam po cijeli dan s divljim jabukama u ustima. S po jednom ispod svakog obraza. Yossarian odlozi torbicu iz koje je poceo vaditi toaletne potrepstine, pa se sumnjicavo sav ukruti. Prode jedna minuta. - A zasto? - nije mogao da najposlije ne zapita. Orr se slavodobitno naceri. - Zato sto su bolje nego divlje kestenje - odgovori. Orr je klecao na podu satora. Radio je bez predaha, rastavljao ventil, po.. | kesteni obrazi orr yossarian | Joseph Heller Kvaka 22 | |
| bcc4b36 | Yossarian attended the education sessions because he wanted to find out why so many people were working so hard to kill him. | Joseph Heller | ||
| bab0f39 | Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 5cc462e | Imaginese lo que es un hombre de su edad arriesgando la poca vida que le queda por algo tan absurdo como una patria. -Nately volvio a alzarse en son de guerra. -!No tiene nada de absurdo arriesgar la vida por la patria!- declaro. -?Ah, no? -pregunto el viejo-. ?Que es un pais, al fin y al cabo? Un trozo de tierra rodeado por todas partes de fronteras, por lo general antinaturales. Los ingleses mueren por Inglaterra, los americanos por Ameri.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 51be238 | You've got flies in your eyes. That's why you can't see them. | Joseph Heller | ||
| dfe5edd | 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. | Joseph Heller | ||
| e659eb4 | 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." -- | Joseph Heller | ||
| b8f1777 | There was shish-kabob for lunch, huge, savory hunks of spitted meat sizzling like the devil over charcoal after marinating seventy-two hours in a secret mixture Milo had stolen from a crooked trader in the Levant, served with Iranian rice and asparagus tips Parmesan, followed by cherries jubilee for dessert and then steaming cups of fresh coffee with Benedictine and brandy. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 65598b4 | That's what Paradise is- never knowing the difference. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 0f01483 | Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain. | Joseph Heller | ||
| aefb898 | This stuff is better than cotton candy, really it is. It's made out of real cotton. Yossarian, you've got to help me make the men eat it. Egyptian cotton is the finest cotton in the world. | cotton milo | Joseph Heller | |
| 241b843 | And between us now there is this continual underground struggle over something trivial and nebulous that won't abate and has lasted nearly as long as the two of us have known each other. "I love you." | Joseph Heller | ||
| 88a7621 | Shooting skeet eight hours a month was excellent training for them. It trained them to shoot skeet. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 918084e | Like hell he was," said the first C.I.D. man. "I'm the C.I.D. man arround here." Major Major could barely recognize him because he was wearing a faded maroon corduroy bathrobe with open seams under both arms, linty flannel pajamas, & worn house slippers with one flapping sole." | Joseph Heller | ||
| cff3e64 | JOE HELLER True story, Word of Honor: Joseph Heller, an important and funny writer now dead, and I were at a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island. I said, "Joe, how does it make you feel to know that our host only yesterday may have made more money than your novel 'Catch-22' has earned in its entire history?" And Joe said, "I've got something he can never have." And I said, "What on earth could that be, Joe?" | Kurt Vonnegut | ||
| 0eb91ee | a nagging bitch of a doubt, burrowing painlessly inside a conscience that felt perfectly clear | Joseph Heller | ||
| c5c7c50 | 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 fingers do you see now?" asked the doctor, holding up two. "Two," said Yossarian. "And how many now?" asked the doctor, holding up none. "Two," said Yossarian. The doctor's face wreathed with a smile. "By Jove, he's right," he declared jub.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| ae1af0a | Milo carefully said nothing when Major de Coverley stepped into the mess hall with his fierce and austere dignity the day he returned and found his way blocked by a wall of officers waiting in line to sign loyalty oaths. At the far end of the food counter, a group of men who had arrived earlier were pledging allegiance to the flag, with trays of food balanced in one hand, in order to be allowed to take seats at the table. Already at the tab.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| b5e2939 | Well, Metcalf, suppose you try keeping that stupid mouth of yours shut,and maybe that's the way you learn how. Now where were we? Read me back the last line." "'Read me back the last line,'" read back the corporal who could take shorthand. "Not my last line, stupid!" the colonel shouted. "Somebody else's." "'Read me back the last line,'" read back the corporal. "That's my last line again!" shrieked the colonel, turning purple with anger. "O.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 55f2e5f | I'm cold,' Snowden whimpered. 'I'm cold.' 'There, there,' Yossarian mumbled mechanically in a voice too low to be heard. 'There, there.' Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the grim secret Snowden had spilled all over the messy floor. It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window.. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 969fd2b | I only raped her once," he explained. Yossarian was aghast. "But you killed her, Aarfy! You killed her!" "Oh, I had to do that after I raped her," Aarfy replied in his most condescending manner." | Joseph Heller | ||
| 14b2b3a | A man's most open actions have a secret side to them. --JOSEPH CONRAD | Joseph Finder | ||
| 4c47b58 | In Madison's formulation, the right to bear arms was not inherent but derivative, depending on service in the militia. The recent Supreme Court decision (Heller v. District of Columbia, 2008) that found the right to bear arms an inherent and nearly unlimited right is clearly at odds with Madison's original intentions.37 | Joseph J. Ellis | ||
| ed1dbb7 | Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours." Yossarian knew what he meant. "That's not what I meant," Doc Daneeka said as Yossarian began scratching his back." | Joseph Heller | ||
| b5aa25d | Chaplain," he continued, looking up, "we accuse you also of the commission of crimes and infractions we don't even know about yet. Guilty or innocent?" "I don't know, sir. How can I say if you don't tell me what they are?" "How can we tell you if we don't know?" "Guilty," decided the colonel. "Sure he's guilty," agreed the major. "If they're his crimes and infractions, he must have committed them." | Joseph Heller | ||
| 04255f7 | First impressions die slowly, bad impressions take even longer | Joseph Heller | ||
| 5b2bb77 | I will give you intelligence," submitted the Creator, "enough knowledge to destroy everything on earth, but you will have to use it." "Done!" said our ancestor and that was our Genesis." | Joseph Heller | ||
| 2686e4f | Why,' swore Yossarian at him approvingly, 'you evil-eyed, mechanically-aptituded, disaffiliated son of a -----, did you walk around with anything in your cheeks?' 'I didn't,' Orr said, 'walk around with anything in my cheeks. I walked around with crab apples in my cheeks. When I couldn't get crab apples, I walked around with horse chestnuts. In my cheeks. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 3b6ce6c | 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, sickly children in Italy that same night who needed haircuts and needed shoes and socks. | Joseph Heller | ||
| a331e3b | Colonel Cathcart had courage and never hesitated to volunteer his men for any target available. | Joseph Heller | ||
| 8cb4bb0 | You know what I always say--never let an asshole rent space in your head. | Joseph Finder | ||
| 730b280 | Sure, there's a catch," Doc Daneeka replied. "Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy." | Joseph Heller | ||
| adb3f50 | Moses has the Ten Commandments, it's true, but I've got much better lines - King David | Joseph Heller | ||
| 9444109 | As soon as there was profit, there were people who wanted to make it, more than they wanted to make anything else. | Joseph Heller |