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"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
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"She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."

"We can't have what we want and nothing is gonna change it."

"The map is not the territory," Snicket's chaperon advises him. "That's an expression which means the world does not match the picture in our heads."

"The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other."

"It is so easy to dream but so hard to forget them."

"Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality."
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"We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government."

"It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people."

"I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language."

"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."

"Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed."

"Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates."

"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
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