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"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
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"Not for the first time I find our lives are a shadow, and I am not afraid to say that people who think they have everything figured out and are masters of logic - they are responsible for the greatest folly. No human being is happy. Strike it rich and you are luckier than your neighbor - but happy, never."
"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."
"Never expect people to understand, respect or love you , they are just a bunch of dirty flesh and fake skins. Staring to eat you when you are fat enough."
"It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces."
"Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?"
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government."
"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."
"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."
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