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“I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.
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― No Country for Old Men
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― No Country for Old Men
“It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?”
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“Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.”
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“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)”
― The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 1903-1950
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)”
― The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 1903-1950
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