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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
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“What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
― 1984
― 1984
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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