Terry Pratchett
Author
"Rincewind could scream for mercy in nineteen languages, and just scream in another forty-four."
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Nineteen
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George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--"
Richard Henry Lee
Politician
"If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen?"
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
George Orwell
Writer, Journalist
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
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"Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
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"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already."
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"It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally."
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"Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back."
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"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."
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"Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom."
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"There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good."
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"Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen."
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"Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death."
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"To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available."
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"We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
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"Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die."
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"...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war."
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"Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."
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"He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable."
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"The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well."
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"Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman."
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"If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."
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"The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace."
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"It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case."
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