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«England and the English As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unlivable to them unless they have tea and puddings»
«The crowds in the big towns, with their mild, knobby faces, their bad teeth and gentle manners solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar boxes.»
«He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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«Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
Churchill, definitely, His country, Winston Churchill
«Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.»
«War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.»
«All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.»
«War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.»
«Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.»
«To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
getaway, getaways, ignominious, lords, surprising, to a great extent, when the time comes
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