"If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right."

-- George Orwell

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“The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security ... .”
“The world said to conform, the world said to settle for less, the world said to compromise and no one would know... so I made my own world.”

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“. . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.”
“Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.”
“...I know all about myself now, I know. You've told me so often. You haven't left me one rag of illusion to clothe myself in.”
“You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.”
“Hosni Mubarak... his constitution is not democratic, but he is democratic. We can voice our opinions now. The press is free.”
“There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.”

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