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Big Brother is watching you. - 1984 (pt. I, ch. 5) [Government] All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. - Animal Farm [Equality] But they had not gone twenty yards when they stopped short. An uproar of voices was coming from the farmhouse. They rushed back and looked through the window again. Yes, a violent quarrel was in progress. There were shoutings, bangings on the table, sharp suspicious glances, furious denials. The source of the trouble appeared to be that Napoleon and Mr. Pilkington had each played an ace of spades simultaneously. Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The 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. - Animal Farm [Books (Last Lines)] Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring. - Animal Farm [Books (First Lines)] The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth. - Coming Up for Air [Books (First Lines)] As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. - England Your England, an essay in The Lion and the Unicorn [Books (First Lines)] The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb. - Keep the Aspidistra Flying [Books (First Lines)] In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. - Shooting an Elephant [Speech] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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