Memorable Quotes from Bob Flag
2 quotesBeauty 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!]
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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]
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