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Bob Flag Quotes

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Memorable Quotes from Bob Flag

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Beauty and Despair in a Dystopian World
Winston Smith She's beautiful.
[admiring a woman who sings a Party-made prole song]
Julia She's a metre across the hips, easily.
Winston Smith That's her style of beauty. The future is hers. We are the dead.
Julia We are the dead.
Big Brother You are the dead.
Big Brother Remain exactly where you are. Make no move until you are ordered.
Julia Now they can see us.
Big Brother Now we can see you. Clasp your hands behind your head. Stand back to back. Do not touch one another.
Winston Smith The house is surrounded.
Big Brother The house is surrounded.
Julia I suppose we may as well say good-bye.
Big Brother You may as well say good-bye. While we are on the subject, "]
[[w:Oranges and Lemons|Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head!]
Call to Defend Oceania's Values and People
Big Brother This is our land --- a land of peace, and of plenty; a land of harmony and hope. This is our land: Oceania. These are our people: the workers, the strivers, the builders. These are our people --- the builders of our world, struggling, fighting, bleeding, dying --- on the streets of our cities, and on the far-flung battlefields, fighting against the mutilation of our hopes and dreams. Who are they? They are the dark armies --- the dark, murdering armies of Eurasia. In the barren deserts of Africa and India, in the oceans of Australasia, courage, strength, and youth are sacrificed --- sacrificed to barbarians whose only honour is atrocity. But even as we grasp at victory, there is a cancer, an evil tumour, growing, spreading in our midst. Shout. Shout! SHOUT OUT HIS NAME!
[images of protesters appear; a crowd chants "Eurasia, Eurasia."; Image of Goldstein appears]