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Old Quotes by George Orwell
- Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the…
- Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine…
- You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts…
- A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut.…
- Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much…
- England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.
- 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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