After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote … - Joseph Heller

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What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

Joseph Heller

After he made up his mind to spend the rest of the war in the hospital, Yossarian wrote letters to everyone he knew saying that he was in the hospital but never mentioning why. One day he had a better idea. To everyone he knew he wrote that he was going on a very dangerous mission. "They asked for volunteers. It's very dangerous, but someone has to do it. I'll write you the instant I get back. " And he had not written anyone since.

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It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

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The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

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