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"Mirroring a lot of Brave New World's ideas - instant gratification should make everyone happy. Individualism and intellectualness should be stamped out. Anything that reminds one of something sad, upsetting, offensive should be discarded and forgotten." — Apr 13, 2021 05:05PM
"Mirroring a lot of Brave New World's ideas - instant gratification should make everyone happy. Individualism and intellectualness should be stamped out. Anything that reminds one of something sad, upsetting, offensive should be discarded and forgotten." — Apr 13, 2021 05:05PM
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There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds
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― On Bullshit
“There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“Women talk when they want to. Or don't.”
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― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― The House at Pooh Corner
"Pooh!" he whispered.
"Yes, Piglet?"
"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.”
― The House at Pooh Corner
“If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.”
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