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George Orwell19 quotes
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU. — George Orwell · 1949All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. — George Orwell · 1945WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH — George Orwell · 1949If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever. — George Orwell · 1949If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. — George Orwell · 1949The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. — George Orwell · 1945All 19 quotes →Margaret Atwood6 quotes
Nobody dies from lack of sex. It's lack of love we die from. — Margaret Atwood · 1985When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. — Margaret Atwood · 1985But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Don't let the bastards grind you down. — Margaret Atwood · 1985But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot. — Margaret Atwood · 1985What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface. Perspective is necessary. Otherwise there are only two dimensions. Otherwise you live with your face squashed against a wall, everything a huge foreground, of details, close-ups, hairs, the weave of the bedsheet, the molecules of the face. — Margaret Atwood · 1985Sinclair Lewis6 quotes
He loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons. — Sinclair Lewis · 1935It isn't what you earn but how you spend it that fixes your class. — Sinclair Lewis · 1935Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on. — Sinclair Lewis · 1935Why are you so afraid of the word ‘Fascism,’ Doremus? Just a word-just a word! And might not be so bad, with all the lazy bums we got panhandling relief nowadays, and living on my income tax and yours-not so worse to have a real Strong Man, like Hitler or Mussolini-like Napoleon or Bismarck in the good old days-and have ‘em really run the country and make it efficient and prosperous again. ‘Nother words, have a doctor who won’t take any back-chat, but really boss the patient and make him get well whether he likes it or not! — Sinclair Lewis · 1935Why, America’s the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country’s too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn’t happen here! — Sinclair Lewis · 1935I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever. But the men of ritual and the men of barbarism are capable of shutting up the men of science and of silencing them forever. — Sinclair Lewis · 1935