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"What was difficult was you never saw her alone, in her normal routine, because the moment you were there, she was a different person."

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"If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated."

George Orwell - 1984 P. 60

"We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are."

"As a matter of fact, in Ellesmere Road we don't own our houses, even when we've finished paying for them."

"All is fair in love and flies."

What was a little governmental assassination with your ham and polyester?

- Hell's Corner, David Baldacci, p. 406

No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

"Everything was created to be seen drunk."

"What was tragedy for one man was not for another, if he could assume the right attitude toward it."

"It was a phony, though. That was why Tom preferred it."

"Captain Billings," he drawled finally, "if you will pardon my candor, I might remark that you are something of an ass."

"Anyway, if one has enough sense of guilt, it is not necessary to belong to a church."

Chuaigh mé isteach i dteach aréir
'gus d'iarr mé deoch ar mhnaoi an leanna.
Dúirt sí liom, "Ní gheobhaigh tú deor,
Buail an bothar is gabh abhaile."

"Memory is not history."

His little body, burned brown by exposure, suddenly caused him feelings of intense shame, for he realized that it was entirely hairless, like some low snake, or other reptile.