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We shall abolish the orgasm.

  • Aug. 4th, 2005 at 5:48 AM
lu: (doubleplusgood)
And so I've finished reading 1984. Must say I'm really stunned.

I was not expecting such a good book. *is in love*

There were some boring parts indeed, but the good ones definitely made up for them.

"Until the become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."

"Sanity is not statistical."

"All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour."

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."

"It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already."

"It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was torture at the end of it."

"We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull."

"For the first time he perceived that if you want to keep a secret you must also hide it from yourself."

"You were the dead; theirs was the future. But you could share in that future if you kept alive the mind as they kept alive the body, and passed on the secret doctrine that two plus two make four."

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christycorr: Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon) (Default)
[personal profile] christycorr wrote:
Aug. 4th, 2005 03:15 pm (UTC)
By the way, do you now understand my overpowering need to write that in caps? *grins*
[identity profile] nancy-downs.livejournal.com wrote:
Aug. 4th, 2005 07:01 pm (UTC)
I did. *grins*

Those words wouldn't have the same effect if not capitalized.

*is dying to read Death*
christycorr: Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon) (Default)
[personal profile] christycorr wrote:
Aug. 4th, 2005 07:35 pm (UTC)
*nods* Exactly.

You should be! *grins*
[identity profile] nancy-downs.livejournal.com wrote:
Aug. 4th, 2005 07:58 pm (UTC)
*grins*

I will, I will!

Does he appear in all TO books? Oo
christycorr: Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon) (Default)
[personal profile] christycorr wrote:
Aug. 4th, 2005 08:01 pm (UTC)
Guessing you meant "TP" -- the answer is no. Just... most. And he's the main character in a few.

(Where's that icon from? o.O)
[identity profile] nancy-downs.livejournal.com wrote:
Aug. 5th, 2005 08:09 am (UTC)
He seems like a VERY NICE GUY. *grins*

(I have absolutely no idea. I just liked it. And couldn't find anything better, really.)

*points* I liked that one too.
[identity profile] nancy-downs.livejournal.com wrote:
Aug. 5th, 2005 08:10 am (UTC)
Where is yours from, again?

You like bowling, don't you, Montag?

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. If the government is inefficient, topheavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they'll feel like they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. And they'll be happy, because facts of that sort don't change. Don't give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

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