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"A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own."

"His style as a writer places him in the category of the immortals, and his courage as a critic outlives the bitter battles in which he engaged. As a result, we use the word 'Orwellian' in two senses: The first describes a nightmare state, a dystopia of untrammelled power; the second describes the human qualities that are always ranged in resistance to such regimes, and that may be more potent and durable than we sometimes dare to think."
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"Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again."

"Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave."

"Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all."

"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
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