Catch-22

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

Yossarian had done his best to warn him the night before. ‘You haven’t got a chance, kid,’ he told him glumly. ‘They hate Jews.’ ‘But I’m not Jewish,’ answered Clevinger. ‘It will make no difference,’ Yossarian promised, and Yossarian was right. ‘They’re after everybody.’

22 love most is precisely what, from the Flaubertian

His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily.

He had opposed his daughter’s marriage to Colonel Moodus because he disliked attending weddings.

‘Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?’

He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

History did not demand Yossarian’s premature demise, justice could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it, victory did not depend on it.

Dunbar loved shooting skeet because he hated every minute of it and the time passed so slowly.