“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?”
― Men and Women and Other Poems
Or what's a heaven for?”
― Men and Women and Other Poems
“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
― One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.”
― Time Regained
― Time Regained
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― 1984
― 1984
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