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History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy.
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.
- Some men think because they are afraid to do. - There is a difference between fear and caution.
You've got a bold tongue, little man. One day, someone is like to cut it out and make you eat it.
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
The worst isn't done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy endings. (Samuel Tarly)
faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.
It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.
[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]
...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.
Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.
If you live with death threats, you need friends. So you have to risk that they might spy on you.
If only the right person would have to leave, everyone else would be able to stay in the country.
I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
Everybody all over the world takes a wife's estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.
Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.
One of the most detestable habits of Lilliputian minds is to find their own littleness in others.
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.
Love is not popular. Not noble. . . not love, no reward. Trust love. Is not love. Trust yourself.
It's hard to maintain both smack and crack habbits and remember to keep up mobile-phone payments.
There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.
A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?
In the end, it mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart that saved you.
Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.
I am not trying to influence anyone into black magic. That is the very last thing I'd want to do.
Are you insane? Of course I want to leave the Dursleys! Have you got a house? When can I move in?
Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?
There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
You've been checking me out, haven't you? In between your flaming insults? I feel like man candy.
Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer.
But the heart has a mind of its own and it always gets what it wants, especially when it's dying.
Great rationalizations. All of which her adrenal gland middle-fingered and then carried right on.
That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.
Man, it was a good thing vampires didn't get cancer. Lately he'd been chain-smoking like a felon.
While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
I wouldn't mind being labeled as "angry," if it wasn't used once again to denigrate and belittle.
It is sad that unless you are born a god, your life,from its very beginning, is a mystery to you.
The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!
O cold ! O shivery ! It was your ambrosial beauty. Forget, forgive. Kismet. Let me off this once.
British Beatitudes! ... Beer, beef, business, bibles, bulldogs, battleships, buggery and bishops.