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“I thought you said there was something wrong. Everything seems okay. Everything is all right.”
Yossarian’s heart sank. Something was terribly wrong if everything was all right and they had no excuse for turning back.

"We'll have a fair fight," he explained officially to Hungry Joe and the cat after he had carried them both outside, stll holding them apart by the scruffs of their necks. "Fists, fangs and claws. But no guns," he warned Hungry Joe. "And no spitting" he warned the cat sternly. "When I turn you both loose, go. Break clean in the clinches and come back fighting. Go!"

"Of course I put laundry soap in the sweet potatoes," Corporal Snark admitted to Yossarian. "That's what you asked me to do, isn't it?
Laundry soap is the best way."
"He swears to God he didn't have a thing to do with it," Yossarian reported back to Milo.
Milo pouted dubiously. "Dunbar says there is no God."

“The only official documents that interested him were those occasional ones pertaining to the unfortunate second lieutenant who had been killed [...] it would be safest to report him as never having reported to the squadron at all, and the occasional documents relating to him dealt with the fact that he seemed to have vanished into thin air, which, in one way, was exactly what did happen to him.”

"Men," Colonel Cargill began in Yossarian's squadron, measuring his pauses carefully. "You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.”