Author of quotes: Joseph Heller

... outside the hospital the war was still going. People were mad and got medals for it. On both sides of the front line, russakovskii the world, young men went to their death for their homeland, as they were told, and everyone, it seems, it seemed that it should be, especially the young guys, who were going to die, unable to live. Was not, did not foresee this end.

- So do you know how fast a year passes when he leaves? - again asked Clevinger Dunbar. - Here's how! - He snapped his fingers. - Time - and no. Yesterday you were a freshman in College, young and fresh, like liquid Apple. And today the old man.
- The old man? - astonishment asked Clevinger. - It's about what are you talking about?
- Of course, man.
- I'm not an old man.
- Not a man? Yes, you are in death every departure, isn't it? You at any moment can go to the light, as the frail old man.

Kraft was a skinny, harmless kid from Pennsylvania, and he sought all his life to to please everyone, but even in this wretched desire not succeeded. Catered to, catered to, and landed on the light - bloody spark in a warped plane, nobody noticed even on the verge of death, at the last moment, when his plane with a broken wing, tumbling, rushing to the ground.

McWatt was probably the most profound among them psycho, because, for all his sanity quietly apprehended war.

It was an evil, monstrous war, and Yossarian well he lived to themselves but lived without it - maybe forever. Not all of his countrymen were destined to die for the sake of victory, and he's not eager to share the heroic fate of the victims.

Sergeant Bobbins definitely favoring thrift and condemning the violence, could not without disgust to think about the terrible extravagance in which the person is sent on a plane to distant lands to two hours after arrival to tear to shreds.

... a week later began the Celebrated siege of Bologna, permeated by the noxious poison even raw greenish mist over the tents and in the autumn of each person assigned to the flight, suffocating shroud was prepared for him to corruption.

- Enemy with a heavy inexorability said Yossarian, should be regarded as any one who seeks your death, whose side would he end up...

- When you get there - with a grim solemnity, and his head bowed my father said, - tell, please, something from me. Tell that the wrong people die when they are young. Wrong, and that's it. Tell them that if they have to die, let them die when they get old. Only give directly to. Sam-this, you see, doesn't know because he is merciful, and all goes as it now is, for a long time, very long time.

Before I'm very happy to have saved people's lives. And now I think: well what the hell good is that if they still sent to slaughter?

- For the continuation of life sometimes you have to die, ' said Netley.
- For the continuation of life to live, ' returned the old blasphemer.

You suffer from exaggerated revulsion to the possibility of being robbed, fleeced, deceived and humiliated. Misery depresses you. Corruption is outraged. The ignorance is appalling. Violence offends. Greed turns away. Persecution suppress. The slums are depressing. Crime plagued. In short, a normal life is causing your depression. And I won't be surprised if you find that you suffer from manic-depressive psychosis.

I'm sick of the fact that I'm sick.

- ... They will not send a madman to certain death?!
- And then who will go to certain death?