"We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."

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Source : George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

George Orwell

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“The way he shook his hips up there on that stage, but before that fateful day when he left Tennessee all of them were calling him the King.”
“It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.”
“I cry, Love! Love! Love! happy happy Love! free as the mountain wind!”
“No Legislature can really destroy a religious conviction, except by exterminating its holders. It is historically too late to do that, and we shall live to see the drowned Egyptians on the seashore even yet.”
“You go back to those films of the '40s and '50s and hear the dialogue, the way the people played off each other, the wordplay. I think we've really lost that in movies.”

Source : "Interview:Clive Owen & Jude Law" by Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. December 10, 2004.
“A cocktail party is what you call it when you invite everyone you know to come over to your house at six p.m., put cigarettes out on your rug, and leave at eight to go somewhere more interesting for dinner without inviting you.”
“there won't be any pain, he promised. Only an eternity together. Come back to me. (Stanton, book #5)”
“Parenthood has been the beneficiary of wonderful performances by child actors.”

Source : "Why My Child Actor Deserves an Emmy" by Jason Katims, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 5, 2012.

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