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

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

22 love most is precisely what, from the Flaubertian

‘How can he see he’s got flies in his eyes if he’s got flies in his eyes?’

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.’

Throughout the civilized world, from Battery Park to Fulton Street, he was known as a dependable man for a fast tax write-off.

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

That men would die was a matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the victim of anything but circumstance.

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