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Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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"Mi a haza?
A haza egy darab föld, amit minden oldalról határok vesznek körül, rendszerint természetellenes határok. Az angolok meghalnak Angliáért, az amerikaiak meghalnak Amerikáért, a németek meghalnak Németországért, az oroszok meghalnak Oroszországért. Mármost ötven vagy hatvan haza harcol ebben a háborúban. Bizonyos, hogy ilyen sok haza közül nem mind éri meg, hogy meghaljanak érte."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"It takes brains not to make money," Colonel Cargill wrote in one of the homiletic memoranda he regularly prepared for circulation over General Peckem's signature. "Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"In the morning he stepped from his tent looking haggard, fearful and guilt-ridden, an eaten shell of a human building rocking perilously on the brink of collapse."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Mindenkinek joga van azt tenni, amit nem tilt a törvény, márpedig azt nem tiltja a törvény, hogy magának hazudjanak."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Major de Coverley is a noble and wonderful person, and everyone admires him.'
'He's a silly old fool who really has no right acting like a silly young fool. Where is he today? Dead?"
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Why couldn't anybody understand that he was not really a freak but a normal, lonely adult trying to lead a normal, lonely adult life?"
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"There was one catch, and that was Catch-22."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Death was irreversible, he suspected,"
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity by this clause of Catch-22 and let a respectful whistle. 'That's some catch, that Catch-22,' he observed.
'It's the best there is,' agreed Doc Daneeka."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"The soldier who saw everything twice nodded weakly and sank back on his bed. Yossarian nodded weakly too, eyeing his talented roommate with great humility and admiration. He knew he was in the presence of a master. His talented roommate was obviously a person to be studied and emulated. During the night, his talented roommate died, and Yossarian decided that he had followed him far enough."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"The father continued solemnly with his head lowered. "When you talk to the man upstairs," he said, "I want you to tell Him something for me. Tell Him it ain't right for people to die when they're young. I mean it. Tell Him if they got to die at all, they got to die when they're old. I want you to tell Him that. I don't think He knows it ain't right, because He's supposed to be good and it's been going on for a long, long time. Okay?" "And don't let anybody up there push you around," the brother advised. "You'll be just as good as anybody else in heaven, even though you are Italian." "Dress warm," said the mother, who seemed to know."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Can't you stop by my tent on your way to the hospital and punch one of them in the nose for me?" he speculated aloud. "I've got four of them, and they're going to crowd me out of my tent altogether." "You know, something like that once happened to my whole tribe," Chief White Halfoat remarked"
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"She slept for eighteen hours, while Nately dashed about the apartment all the next morning shushing everybody in sight, and when she woke up she was deeply in love with him. In the last analysis, that was all it took to win her heart - a good night's sleep."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Tudja, ez lehet a megoldás: dicsekedjünk azzal, amit szégyenlenünk kellene. Ez olyan trükk, ami, úgy látszik, mindig beválik."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Pislogva ébredt, kis fejfájással s szemét egy olyan világra nyitotta, amely maga volt a kotyogó káosz, az az minden a megszokott rendben volt."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"It was miraculous. Each day he faced was another dangerous mission against mortality. And he had been surviving them for twenty-eight years."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"What displeased Corporal Whitcomb most about the chaplain, apart from the fact that the chaplain believed in God, was his lack of initiative and aggressiveness."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away?' Dunbar repeated to
Clevinger. 'This long.' He snapped his fingers. 'A second ago you were stepping into
college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you're an old man."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"I'm probably just as good an atheist as you are," she speculated boastfully. "But even I feel that we all have a great deal to be thankful for and that we shouldn't be ashamed to show it."

"Name one thing I've got to be thankful for," Yossarian challenged her without interest.

"Well..." Lieutenant Scheisskopf's wife mused and paused a moment to ponder dubiously. "Me."

"Oh, come on," he scoffed.

She arched her eyebrows in surprise. "Aren't you thankful for me?" she asked. She frowned peevishly, her pride wounded. "I don't have to shack up with you, you know," she told him with cold dignity. "My husband has a whole squadron full of aviation cadets who would be only too happy to shack up with their commanding officer's wife just for the added fillip it would give them." 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."

"Be thankful you've got me," she insisted.

"I am, honey. But I'm also goddam good and miserable that I can't have Dori Duz again, too. Or the hundreds of other girls and women I'll see and want in my short lifetime and won't be able to go to bed with even once."

"Be thankful you're healthy."

"Be bitter you're not going to stay that way."

"Be glad you're even alive."

"Be furious you're going to die."

"Things could be much worse," she cried.

"They could be one hell of a lot better," he answered heatedly."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"During the day, they avoided him, even Aarfy, and Yossarian understood that they were different people together in daylight than they were alone in the dark."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Doc Daneeka hated to fly. He felt imprisoned in an airplane. In an airplane there was absolutely no place in the world to go except to another part of the airplane."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Why couldn't anybody understand that he was not really a freak but a normal, lonely adult trying to lead a normal, lonely adult life? If they pricked him, didn't he bleed? And if he was tickled, didn't he laugh? It"
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Group Headquarters was alarmed, for there was no telling what people might find out once they felt free to ask whatever questions they wanted to."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"There was not enough of the patient to go around, and specialists pushed forward in line with raw tempers and snapped at their colleagues in front to hurry up and give somebody else a chance."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"I want you to tell Him something for me. Tell Him it ain't right for people to die when they're young. I mean it. Tell Him if they got to die at all, they got to die when they're old. I want you to tell Him that. I don't think He knows it ain't right, because He's supposed to be good and it's been going on for a long, long time. Okay?" "And don't let anybody up there push"
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"The more loyalty oaths a person signed, the more loyal he was; to Captain Black it was as simple as that, and he had Corporal Kolodny sign hundreds with his name each day so that he could always prove he was more loyal than anyone else."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Subconsciously there are many people you hate."
"Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. "I hate them
consciously."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

"Adolf Hitler, who had done such a great job of combating un-American activities in Germany."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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