
fiction·classic·
Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961
Skip the plot, everyone can find that. Readers keep the residue here: the sentence that survived after the cover closed.
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What did Catch-22 leave in you?
One sentence. Forget the review voice. Write the line you'd underline and whisper to a friend on the train.
Live proof
The line you carried will sit here, in print.
From the margins
10 lines · sorted by underlines · offline shelf
- CarriedNo. V3FUTG
Catch-22: you can ground out for madness, but asking to ground out proves you're sane. Read it in a hospital.
Carried out ofCatch-22Joseph Heller · 1961not yet underlinedCarried byPetra26 FEB 2026 - CarriedNo. WFGECQ
Orr kept crashing on purpose and I laughed twice before I understood him.
Carried out ofCatch-22Joseph Heller · 1961not yet underlinedCarried byIlan26 MAR 2026 - CarriedNo. 9FN5ZA
Milo bombs his own squadron for profit and gets a medal. The book's quietest documentary.
Carried out ofCatch-22Joseph Heller · 1961not yet underlinedCarried byTheo30 APR 2026 - CarriedNo. 3JI1NN
Doc Daneeka died on paper while drinking coffee in his office. Bureaucracy outranks biology.
Carried out ofCatch-22Joseph Heller · 1961not yet underlinedCarried bySam31 MAY 2026 - CarriedNo. 59P62B
The soldier in white, wrapped in gauze, no openings. I've attended that meeting.
Carried out ofCatch-22Joseph Heller · 1961not yet underlinedCarried byRosa02 JUL 2026 - CarriedNo. 8C7HN3
Snowden's secret: man is matter. The chapter the comedy was protecting the whole time.
Carried out ofCatch-22Joseph Heller · 1961not yet underlinedCarried byAmir02 AUG 2026 - CarriedNo. 29XSQK
Yossarian's forty-six missions and the number kept moving. Moving goalposts, since 1961.
Carried out ofCatch-22Joseph Heller · 1961not yet underlinedCarried byWren03 SEP 2026 - CarriedNo. 8L3INT
Major Major Major Major got promoted for being mistaken. HR has not changed.
Carried out ofCatch-22Joseph Heller · 1961not yet underlinedCarried byLucy04 OCT 2026 - CarriedNo. 27X2ZL
The old woman in Rome said catch-22 first and didn't know she was quoting law.
Carried out ofCatch-22Joseph Heller · 1961not yet underlinedCarried byGrace14 OCT 2026 - CarriedNo. HEF1I5
He swam for the raft. Carrying this one: leaving a bad system is not surrender.
Carried out ofCatch-22Joseph Heller · 1961not yet underlinedCarried byDario26 OCT 2026