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Happen Quotes by George Orwell
- Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to…
- What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of…
- What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the…
- I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
- Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was…
- For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of…
- The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed…
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- I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader.… — Margaret Atwood
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- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet