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"The enemy for the fanatic is pleasure, which makes it extremely important to continue to indulge in pleasure. Dance madly. That is how you get rid of terrorism."
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"You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful."
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"Every man who has in his soul a secret feeling of revolt against any act of the State, of life, or of destiny, is on the verge of riot; and so soon as it appears, he begins to quiver, and to feel himself borne away by the whirlwind."
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"I've always been attracted to stories about rebels - things that are unusual and sometimes dangerous."
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"A rebel adult often seems like a glorious savior, whereas a rebel child often seems like a little devil."
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"There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order method and discipline."
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"There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretive, forbidden, thrilling. It's like a spell, of sorts. It deflates them, reduces them to the common denominator where they can be dealt with."
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"You'll get into dreadful trouble and it won't be my fault. You are bad people."
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Personal Development
"True rebels hate their own rebellion. They know by experience that it is not a cool and glamorous lifestyle, it takes a courageous fool to say things that have not been said and to do things that have not been done."
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"The dark-haired girl behind Winston had begun crying out: 'Swine! Swine! Swine!', and suddenly she picked up a heavy Newspeak dictionary and flung it at the screen."
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"Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered."
Inspirational
"To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client."
Act
"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."
Religion
"A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world."
Leadership
"A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens."
Choice
"Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art."
Art
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."
Art
"Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works."
Writing
"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."
Writing
"The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop."
Marriage
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