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George Orwell
"The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." --
George Orwell
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“Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.”
“About a month before he died, my grandfather, we covered his back full of lard - after that he went downhill very quickly.”
“I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.”
“I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me.”
“Up then, fair phoenix bride, frustrate the sun; Thyself from thine affection Takest warmth enough, and from thine eye All lesser birds will take their jollity. Up, up, fair bride, and call Thy stars from out their several boxes, take Thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make Thyself a constellation of them all; And by their blazing signify That a great princess falls, but doth not die. Be thou a new star, that to us portends Ends of much wonder; and be thou those ends.”
“If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.”
“The search is more important than the destination”
“I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath.”