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In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.
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Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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