I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I’m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I’m cold.' 'You’re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You’re going… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
From now on I'm thinking only of me." Major Danby replied indulgently with a superior smile: "But, Yossarian, suppose everyone felt that… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
How much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The enemy," retorted Yossarian with weighted precision, "is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on, and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Yossarian decided to change the subject. "Now you're changing the subject." he pointed out diplomatically. "I'll bet I can name two things… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Actually there were many officers' clubs that Yossarian had not helped build, but he was proudest of the one on Pianosa. It… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably. He felt goose pimples clacking all over him as he gazed down despondently at the… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“As far back as Yossarian could recall, he explained to Clevinger with a patient smile, somebody was always hatching a plot to… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously,… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I? — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The captain was a good chess player, and the games were always interesting. Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
What would they do to me," he asked in confidential tones, "if I refused to fly them?" We'd probably shoot you," ex-P.F.C.… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“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… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I’m cold,' Snowden said softly, 'I’m cold.' 'You’re going to be all right, kid,' Yossarian reassured him with a grin. 'You’re going to be… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“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… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Captain Flume was obsessed with the idea that Chief White Halfoat would tiptoe up to his cot one night when he was sound asleep… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Depreciating motels, junked automobiles, and quick-food joints grow like amber waves of grain.” — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“That was where he wanted to be if he had to be there at all, instead of hung out there in front like some… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Yossarian was moved by such intense pity for his poverty that he wanted to smash his pale. sad, sickly face with his fist and… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously,"… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
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