Aarnav's english - quotes (1984) Flashcards

1
Q

Telescreen

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“You had to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinised.”

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2
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Aarnavs possibly one good trait

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“The birds sang, the proles sang, the Party did not sing”

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3
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POV Romeo to Juliet

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“The real betrayal would be if they could make me stop me loving you.”

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4
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AHHHHHHHH

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“For an instant he was insane, a screaming animal.”

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5
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Birdy

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“It was in the sun, they were in the shade.”

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When religious people on the streets begin to talk to you like:

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“With a tremulous murmur that sounded like ‘My Saviour!’ she extended her arms towards the screen. Then she buried her face in her hands. It was apparent that she was uttering a prayer.

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7
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In the room where it happened the room where it happened the room where it happeneddddd

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“The thing in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.”

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8
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hate kink????

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The horrible thing about the Two Minutes’ Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but rather that it was impossible to avoid joining in.

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9
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POV WC boys after they leave the English exam

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But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

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10
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Your math teacher trying to convince that you’ll use maths in your life

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“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

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11
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100% from midsommar

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” ‘Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head”

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12
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just how contradicting your essay is about to be

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“War is peace, ignorance is strength, freedom is slavery.”

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13
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food? sea? who knows

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“The fragment of coral, a tiny crinkle of pink like a sugar rosebud from a cake, rolled across the mat.”

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14
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… MILFs?

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“What appealed to him about it was not so much its beauty as the air it seemed to possess of belonging to an age quite different from the present one.”

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15
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Aarnav when he hears John Mayer and starts singing

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“The instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely.”

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16
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The people who pick prefects be like:

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“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment.”

17
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Telescreen pt.2

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“The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.”

18
Q

;)… that’s what he said

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“This place was many metres underground, as deep down as it was possible to go.”

19
Q

boogy time

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“The black panic took hold of him”

20
Q

dead men tell no tales

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“You were the dead; theirs was the future”

21
Q

we gotta dumb down everything for aarnav to understand otherwise he’ll fail and ugly cry and no one wants to see that shit

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“‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.’”