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"Winston stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that he was reading, in comfort and safety. He was alone: no telescreen, no ear at the keyhole, no nervous impulse to glance over his shoulder or cover the page with his hand. The sweet summer air played against his cheek. From somewhere far away there floated the faint shouts of children: in the room itself there was no sound except the insect voice of the clock. He settled deeper into the arm-chair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss, it was eternity."

"If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour."

"Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again."

"When you get lost in a really strange place, nothing is more comforting than found your friend whom you trust and can show the way."

"I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash."
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"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."

"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."
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