“It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain, he fell madly in love with him.”
“"Racial prejudice is a terrible thing, Yossarian. It really is. It's a terrible thing to treat a decent, loyal Indian like a nigger, kike, wop or spic."”
“Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead.”
“But I make a profit of three and a quarter cents an egg by selling them for four and a quarter cents an egg to the people in Malta I buy them from for seven cents an egg. Of course, I don't make the profit. The syndicate makes the profit. And everybody has a share.”
“He proved as good as his word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share" on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him.”
“The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.”
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Catch-22 é um romance de guerra satírico do autor americano Joseph Heller. É seu romance de estreia. Ele começou a escrevê-lo em 1953, e o livro foi publicado pela primeira vez em 1961. Frequentemente citado como um dos romances mais significativos do século XX, ele usa uma narração onisciente em terceira pessoa não cronológica distinta, descrevendo eventos dos pontos de vista de diferentes personagens. As tramas separadas estão fora de sequência, então a linha do tempo se desenvolve junto com o enredo. O romance satiriza a burocracia e a ganância militar.
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