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Seemed Quotes by George Orwell
- I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at…
- A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through…
- The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do.
- All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with…
- Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
- He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a…
- To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just…
- Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same…
- His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact,…
- It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn…
- 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…
- There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a…
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- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every… — Brooks Atkinson
- I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life. — Chinua Achebe
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling… — Douglas Bader
- It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to… — Russell Baker
- I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine,… — Roger Bannister
- I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing. — Scott Adams
- This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. — Simone de Beauvoir
- For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attainable than the Kingdom of God. — Lionel Blue
- I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the… — Elayne Boosler
- I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else,… — David Bowie
- It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference… — Jo Brand