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Inside Quotes by George Orwell
- This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I…
- Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
- I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
- Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
- Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
- Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or…
- For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage.…
- A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of…
- Reality is inside the skull.
- The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air…
- An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since…
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- I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap. — Dan Aykroyd
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- I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside. — Eric Bana
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