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Steven Passmore
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“Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.”
― Chicago: City on the Make
― Chicago: City on the Make

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― 1984
― 1984

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
― Politics and the English Language
― Politics and the English Language

“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
― The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

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