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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
“Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
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“And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?”
― Last Argument of Kings
― Last Argument of Kings
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