Quotes
Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three.
The case against Clevinger was open and shut. The only thing missing was something to charge him with.
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.
Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likeable. In three days no one could stand him.
"You know, that might be the answer — to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail."
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: “We don’t serve colored people here.” I said: “That’s all right, I don’t eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.”
Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.
The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones.
It is not simply a matter of distinguishing between good and evil, but also of not confusing what is laughable with what is not. To make laughable what is not is in some way to make bad what was good.
My dreams are more amorous than my actions have ever been.
