Memorable Quotes from John Hurt
55 quotesTrust No One in Espionage
Control
You weren't followed?
Jim Prideaux
No.
Control
Better come in. Trust no one, Jim. Especially not in the mainstream. Sit down. I understand you still have one Hungarian identity running.
Jim Prideaux
I do.
Control
I want you to go to Budapest. This is not above board. Nobody else knows. They're after my head, Jim-boy. You understand? I have had an offer of service. A Hungarian general wants to come over. I would like you to meet him. He has some information that I need, Jim.
Jim Prideaux
What information?
Control
Treasure. He has the name of the mole the Russians have planted in the British intelligence service, right at the top of the Circus. There's a rotten apple, Jim; we have to find it.
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Confrontation and Control in The Proposition
Jellon Lamb
Good boy! Nice and tight, eh? Right. Up we get. Oh, no, I wouldn't try that if I were you. Ligatures and knots are one of my many talents. Right. And it appears that you are singularly bereft of any talents whatsoever, Mr. Burns. To be speared by a savage? How extraordinarily quaint. Easy, Mr. Burns. I was drunk. You only got me because I was drunk. Well, I'm not drunk now. I'm on the job now. Not a bad day's work, either. For what is an Irishman, but a nigger turned inside out? Now, we're gonna sit down on this log. Nice and easy, Mr. Burns. There.
[capturing Charlie Burns; Charlie struggles]
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Betrayal Under the Chestnut Tree
Winston Smith
Under the spreading chestnut tree, I sold you, you sold me.
[Reciting [[w:Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree|Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree]
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Interconnectedness of Life and Change
Richard Forbush
They'll be back again next year, struggling over the same barren stretch of ice to breed the next generation. And so it will go on, as long as there are penguins and skuas and the will to survive. And what have I learned from it all? That every living creature depends in some way on every other. Humans too. I'm not the same to myself anymore, Tara. Will I seem the same to you, and you to me?
[In his final taped message to Tara]
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Defending Liberty in Dark Times
Rufus Scrimgeour
These are dark times, there is no denying. Our world has perhaps faced no greater threat than it does today. But I say this to our citizenry: We, ever your servants, will continue to defend your liberty and repel the forces that seek to take it from you! Your Ministry remains...strong.
[First lines]
Bill Weasley
Mad-Eye's dead. Mundungus took one look at Voldemort and disapparated.
Ollivander
I believed a different wand would work, I swear!
[while being tortured by Voldemort]
Neville Longbottom
Hey, losers, ] isn't here.
[Confronting Death Eaters on the train; [w:Harry Potter (character)|he]
Xenophilius Lovegood
The Elder Wand, the most powerful wand ever made. The Resurrection Stone. The Cloak of Invisibility. Together, they make the Deathly Hallows. Together, they make one master of death.
[draws a line; draws a circle; draws a triangle]
Lucius Malfoy
You dare to talk to me like that IN MY OWN HOUSE?!
[To Scabior]
Bellatrix Lestrange
Cissy, put the boys in the cellar! I want to have a little conversation with this one, girl-to-girl!
[Ordering Narcissa to put both Harry and Ron in the cellar; To Hermione]
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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!]
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Acknowledgment of Racial Identity and Privilege
Jellon Lamb
No, no need for that. No need for that. We are white men, you and I!
[Motions for Charlie to put his gun away]
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A Critical Moment for Survival on the Train
Curtis
We have 4 seconds to go through three gates and bust Nam out.
Gilliam
Then Nam gets us the rest of the way. Our fate depends on this man.
Curtis
Yeah. If we can get him to cooperate, he can take us all the way to the front of the train.
Gilliam
Very front section?
Curtis
Yeah. From here right to the front of the train. Everything in one stroke. We control the engine, we control the world. Without that, we have nothing. All past revolutions have failed because they couldn't take the engine.
Gilliam
What are you saying?
Curtis
This time we take the engine.
Gilliam
Then what?
Curtis
We kill them.
Gilliam
Wilford?
Curtis
You should run the train now, not Wilford.
Gilliam
I am a shadow of my former shadow. My day was decades ago.
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Planning an Escape from Prison
Jimmy
The second way out, I need you guys help, and that's under.
Billy Hayes
You mean tunnel? Are you serious?
Max
This is Shagmahr prison, not ].
[[w:Stalag 17|Stalag 17]
Jimmy
Well that's where you're wrong fuckface, cause it's already built!
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A Traveler's Disappointment in a Harsh Land
Jellon Lamb
Mr. Murphy, Russia, China, the Congo. Oh, I have traveled among unknown people in lands beyond the sea. But nothing, nothing could've prepared me for this godforsaken hole.
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Confrontation Over Innocence and Accusations
Amphiaraus
Who are you? Are you a murderer?
Ergenia
Damn you! I curse you!
Amphiaraus
Are you a mercenary who turns his back on the innocent?
Ergenia
Stay away from my son!
Amphiaraus
Are you only a legend, or are you the truth behind the legend? We believe in you! We have faith in you! Have faith in yourself! Remember the man that you are.
Ergenia
Father, the gods will punish you! You cannot escape it!
Amphiaraus
Remember the deeds you have performed, the Labors you have accomplished!
Ergenia
No! NOO!!
Atalanta
STOP IT!
Iolaus
Leave her alone!
Amphiaraus
Now tell me!
Ergenia
PLEASE!!!
Amphiaraus
Who... are... YOU?!
[enunciating]
Hercules
I... AM... HERCULLLLLEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!
[building up superhuman strength; the strength of the pull breaks the chains and Hercules leaps over and slams the chain-bound rocks on a Thracian executioner's head, killing him and making him drop the axe in front of Ergenia, who gasps in astonishment]
Cotys
Unleash the wolves!
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Escape Through the Midnight Express
Max
The best thing to do is to get your ass out of here. Best way that you can.
["butt" in the red border clamshell VHS]
Billy Hayes
Yeah, but how?
Max
Catch the midnight express.
Billy Hayes
But what's that?
Max
Well it's not a train. It's a prison word for... escape. But it doesn't stop around here.
[laughs]
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Fortune Hunter's Perspective on Life
Jellon Lamb
You see, My Dude, I am something of a fortune hunter.
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Hope and Consciousness in Nineteen Eighty-Four
Winston Smith
If there is hope, it lies in the ]. If they could become conscious of their own strength, they would have no need to conspire. History does not matter to them.
[Entry in his forbidden diary; [w:Proles|proles]
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Expression of Affection in Distress
Winston Smith
I love you.
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Desire for Corruption and Moral Ambivalence
Winston Smith
Look, I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere! I want everyone corrupt.
Julia
Well, I ought to suit you, dear. I'm corrupt to the core.
Winston Smith
Do you like doing this? I don't mean just me...
Julia
I adore it.
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The Weight of Thoughtcrime in Nineteen Eighty-Four
Winston Smith
] is death. Thoughtcrime does not entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself.
[[w:Thoughtcrime|Thoughtcrime]
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Common Ancestry and Chilling Insights
Jellon Lamb
Charles, eh? Perhaps you've read On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin? Oh, don't be thrown by the title, he had some most fascinating things to say. Chilling things! Mr. Darwin spent time studying Aboriginals. He claims we are, at bottom … one and the same! He infers, Mr. Murphy, that we a share a common ancestry with monkeys! Monkeys!
[Laughs]
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Questioning the Nature of Normalcy
Winston Smith
Was there ever a time when this was ordinary?
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The Essence of Freedom in Truth
Winston Smith
Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals four. If that is granted all else will follow.
[Entry in his forbidden diary]
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A Call to Follow Hercules in Battle
Hercules
Soldiers of Thrace! You followed me in battle, follow me now.
Cotys
Don't be fools! Hercules is mortal, not a god! Anyone who sides with him will die! And I will show you. Bring him!
[turns to a soldier]
Ergenia
Arius!
[sees a soldier bring forward Arius bound in rope]
Arius
Mama!
Ergenia
No! He's your grandson!
Cotys
You failed to save your children, Hercules. But you may yet save him.
Ergenia
Please, Father! No!
Cotys
Admit defeat! Bow to me! You have until the count of three! One! Two!
[Autolycus' knife suddenly impales the soldier's throat]
Autolycus
Don't just stand there! Kill someone!
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The Essence of Humanity and Betrayal
Winston Smith
It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other.
Julia
If you mean confessing, we're bound to do that. Everybody does. You can't help it.
Winston Smith
I don't mean confessing. Confessing isn't betrayal. I mean feelings. If they can make me change my feelings. If they can stop me from loving you, that would be real betrayal.
Julia
They can't do that. It's the one thing they can't do. They can torture you, make you say anything. But they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you. They can't get to your heart.
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The Language of Power and Violence
Lawrence Fassett
I know Maxwell Danforth very well; he killed my wife. Not with his bare hands, of course. The Danforths of the world don't murder that way. They use words like terminate, exterminate.
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The Limits of Care and Cure
John Merrick
There's something I've been meaning to ask you for some time now.
Dr. Frederick Treves
What's that?
John Merrick
Can you cure me?
Dr. Frederick Treves
No. We can care for you, but we can't cure you.
John Merrick
No. I thought not.
[matter-of-factly]
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Frustration with Nature's Cycles
Richard Forbush
Well, if they're so strapped to the life force that they have to find their way back here to this refrigerated graveyard every year, that's their bad luck. God, I wish they'd get here and get it over. Oh, blast you all, wherever you are!
[after waiting for days and no penguins in sight]
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Facing the Threat of the Elder Wand
Ollivander
He's after you, Mr. Potter. If it's true what you say and ] has found the Elder Wand, I'm afraid you really don't stand a chance.
[[w:Lord Voldemort|he]
Harry
I suppose I'll have to kill him before he finds me, then.
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The Value of Teaching and Recognition
More
Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher, perhaps a great one.
Richard Rich
If I was, who would know it?
More
You, your pupils, your friends, God. Not a bad public, that.
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The Power of Alliances in Leadership
Eurystheus
Magnificent, aren't they? An extraordinary species, incredibly loyal, as long as they're fed. Remember them?
Hercules
Eurystheus.
Eurystheus
They remember you. Confused, Hercules?
Cotys
Kingdoms are won with armies, but empires are made by alliances. King Eurystheus and I will now rule all of Greece.
Hercules
Cerberus only exists in my mind.
Eurystheus
Speak a little louder, Hercules. I didn't quite catch that.
Hercules
The wolves, they were there that night. The wolves were there. You drugged me. The wolves were there the night my family was murdered.
Eurystheus
My men told me how your children screamed as my wolves gnawed on their bones. As their fangs despoiled your daughter's... pure flesh. When the people called out your name louder than mine, you see, when they saw you as a god, how long before they saw you as their king?
Hercules
I WANTED NOTHING!!
Eurystheus
PRECISELY! Your sin, Hercules, was that you had no ambition! I can deal with an ambitious man! He can be bought! But a man who wants nothing has no price! Killing you would have turned Athens against me. I had to ruin your name.
Hercules
My wife! My children!
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A Standoff Between Warriors
Cotys
Rhesus!
Rhesus
You have come looking for a fight, and we are happy to oblige. Hercules, the son of Zeus. Your legend ends here.
[to Hercules]
Hercules
Look at me. Do I look afraid?
Rhesus
It is over, Cotys. Mount Asticus on your front, the woods at your back, and my troops outman you three to one. Surrender now, and we shall consider being merciful.
Sitacles
Men die who speak to my lord in such a manner.
Rhesus
You've made your choice.
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Unexpected Kindness in Unlikely Encounters
Mrs. Treves
I'm very pleased to meet you, Mr. Merrick.
John Merrick
I'm very pleased...
[begins to cry]
Dr. Frederick Treves
What is it, John? What's the matter?
John Merrick
It's just that I-I'm not used to being treated so well by a beautiful woman...
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Winston's Desperation and Betrayal of Julia
Winston Smith
Do it to her! Do it to Julia! I don’t care what you do to her, but do it to her! Tear her face off! Do it to Julia, not to me! DO IT TO JULIA! DO IT TO JULIA!!!! Not me!
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The Limits of Loyalty and Duty
Control
Would you witness this for me?
[Control has just signed an official document of the British Intelligence Service.]
Percy Alleline
I wish I could've done more, Control.
Control
You did all you could, Percy. Well, a man should know when to leave the party.
Toby Esterhase
What about Smiley?
Control
Smiley is leaving with me.
[Smiley nods to the affirmative.]
Bill Haydon
You little prick, Esterhase!
[having an inaudible conversation with Esterhase. Esterhase then waves mockingly at Control and Smiley, both of whom are leaving 'The Circus'.]
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Identification of a Powerful Wand
Harry
Mr. Ollivander, I need to ask you a few questions.
Ollivander
Anything, my boy. Anything.
Harry
Would you mind identifying this wand? We need to know if it's safe to use.
[gives him Bellatrix's wand for identifying]
Ollivander
Walnut. Dragon heartstring. Twelve and three-quarter inches. Unyie-- Unyielding. This belonged to Bellatrix Lestrange. Treat it carefully.
Harry
And this?
[gives him Draco's wand]
Ollivander
Hawthorn. And unicorn hair. Ten inches. Reasonably pliant. This was the wand of Draco Malfoy.
Harry
Was? Is it not still?
Ollivander
Well, perhaps not, if you won it from him. I sense its allegiance has changed.
Harry
You talk about wands as if they have feelings...can think.
Ollivander
The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter. That much has always been clear to those of us who have studied wandlore.
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Yearning for Freedom from Oppression
Winston Smith
April 4, 1984... I think. To the past or to the future, to an age when thought is free, from the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the ], from a dead man --- greetings!
[First entry in his forbidden diary; [w:Thought Police|Thought Police]
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Obedience and Love in Totalitarian Regimes
O'Brien
Tell me, Winston - and remember, no lies - what are your feelings towards Big Brother?
Winston Smith
I hate him.
O'Brien
You must love him. It is not enough to obey him. You must love him.
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Hope and Fear for the Scattered Birds
Richard Forbush
The wretched birds have been scattered over this benighted landsacpe like bits of black pepper. They've used up so much of their courage already. Will they be able to find enough to come back? I wonder? I'm afraid.
[writing to Tara after a Navy chopper scares away all the penguins]
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Unexpected Intelligence Report Sparks Discussion
Control
George! George, get in here! George, sit down. Take a look at this nonsense. Report by Soviet high command on their recent naval exercises in the Black Sea, just what the Admiralty has been begging us for some information on...
[Smiley enters.; Smiley sits.]
Smiley
Where did you get this?
Control
I didn't. Percy and his little cabal walked in with it.
Esterhase
Look, Control...
Control
Shut up!
Haydon
Style appalling, blatantly a fabrication from beginning to end. It just could be the real thing.
[flicking through document, casually.]
Smiley
If it's genuine it's gold dust. But its topicality makes it suspect.
Control
Smiley is suspicious, Percy!
Smiley
Where did it come from? What's the access?
Alleline
A new secret source of mine.
Smiley
But how could he possibly have access-
Alleline
He has access to the most sensitive levels of policy making. We've named the operation Witchcraft.
Control
Oh, Percy and his pals bypassed us, Smiley. Gone straight to the minister. Percy has been allowed to keep the identity of his new friend TOP secret.
[archly.]
Alleline
The minister agrees with me that too many secrets are blown around here. Too much failure, too many scandals, too little solid intelligence.
Bland
Percy does have a point, Control; we should be fighting Communism, not each other.
Alleline
No, we're losing our reputation, our partners-
Control
Your bloody Yanks!
Alleline
-and we've had enough! There's going to be changes.
Esterhase
We need to decide if we want to be part of the past or part of the future.
Control
I should have left you where I found you.
Esterhase
Look-!
All
Control-!
Control
OUT! ALL OF YOU!
Smiley
If Witchcraft is genuine-
Control
Nothing is genuine anymore!
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Perspective Amidst Chaos
Lawrence Fassett
Think of them as fleas on a dog hit by a car driven by a drunken teenager whose girlfriend just gave him the clap. It will help you sense of perspective.
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Perception of Identity and Humanity
Mrs. Kendal
Why, Mr. Merrick, you're not an elephant man at all.
John Merrick
Oh no?
Mrs. Kendal
Oh no... no... you're a Romeo.
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Identifying the Moscow Mole in Intelligence
Control
I know that Moscow has planted a mole, and I know it is one of five men. Alleline: Tinker. Haydon: Tailor. Bland: Soldier. We leave out "Sailor", too much like "Tailor", and "Rich man" doesn't seem to apply. Esterhase: Poor man.
[starts placing out chess pieces with photos on them.]
Jim Prideaux
And the fifth?
Control
Smiley.
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The Final Pair Emerges
Lawrence Fassett
And then there were two.
[the RV has just exploded, killing all four inside as Osterman and Tanner watch]
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Perceptions Defined by Unseen Limitations
John Merrick
] are ] by what they don't ].
[[People; [frightened; [understand]
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The Indomitable Spirit of Humanity
Winston Smith
I know you'll fail. Something in this world... some spirit you will never overcome...
O'Brien
What is it, this principle?
Winston Smith
I don't know. The spirit of man.
O'Brien
And do you consider yourself a man?
Winston Smith
Yes.
O'Brien
If you're a man, Winston, you're the last man. Your kind is extinct. We are the inheritors. Do you realise that you are alone? You are outside history. You unexist. Get up.
O'Brien
Look at you. You're rotting away.
O'Brien
That is the last man. If you are human, that is humanity.
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The Power of Love and Protection
Ollivander
The wand chooses the wizard, Mr. Potter. That much has always been clear to those of us who have studied wandlore.
Luna Lovegood
I think it's best if you two talk alone. She's very shy.
Lily Potter
Harry, you are so loved, so loved. Harry, Mama loves you. Dada loves you. Harry, be safe. Be strong.
[in Snape's memory; Whispering]
Molly Weasley
Not my daughter, YOU BITCH!
[in anger towards Bellatrix for trying to hurt Ginny]
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Introduction of Jellon Lamb's Character
Jellon Lamb
Permit me to introduce myself. My name is Jellon Lamb. Citizen of the world, you might say, an adventurer, and, if I may be so bold, a man of no little education.
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Recognition of Humanity and Identity
John Merrick
I am not an ]! I am not an ]! I am a ] being! I... am... a ]!
[[elephant; [animal; [human; [man]
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Acceptance of a Harsh Reality
Winston Smith
We are the dead.
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Call for Retribution Against the Penguins
Richard Forbush
Retribution is near my fine feathered friends. Make no mistake about that. You've asked for it, now you'll get it! Now it's your turn! You hear me? Go on, get out! GET OUT! ALL OF YOU! Die, damn you! Die! DO YOU HEAR ME? DIE! DIE!
[to the predatory skuas; as he attacks the skuas with a catapult]
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Finding Fulfillment Through Love
John Merrick
My life is full because I know I am loved.
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A Lost Belief in a Forgotten God
Jellon Lamb
I was, in days gone by, a believer. But, alas, I came to this beleaguered land and the God in me just … evaporated. Let us change our toast, then, to the God that has forgotten us.
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The Nature of War and Society's Control
Winston Smith
In accordance to the principles of ], it does not matter if the war is not real, or when it is, that victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact." Julia? Are you awake? There is truth, and there is untruth. To be in a minority of one doesn't make you mad. Julia, my love, I understand how, but I don't understand why.
[Reads from Goldstein's book; [w:Doublethink|doublethink; notices Julia is asleep]
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The Importance of Comrades in Legend
Cotys
Hercules, welcome. An honor to host such a legend.
Hercules
Lord Cotys.
Cotys
But in legend, you fight alone.
Hercules
My reputation would not exist without my comrades. Autolycus of Sparta, Tydeus of Thebes, Atalanta of Scythia, Iolaus of Athens, and Amphiaraus of Argos.
Cotys
Amphiaraus? The famed seer of Argos. It is said you have glimpsed your own death, so you fight each battle knowing that it is not yet your time to die. What else can you tell of the future?
Amphiaraus
Only what the gods see fit to reveal.
Cotys
A shame. It would have been a great gift to know the outcome of this war.
Amphiaraus
The gods can be frustrating sometimes, Lord Cotys.
Cotys
With respect, I fear that the task ahead might not be suitable for a woman, even if she is an Amazon warrior. I stand corrected.
[chuckles and turns to Atalanta; Atalanta swiftly turns around fires both arrows at once at the guards' helmets against a door]
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A Son's Reflection on His Mother
John Merrick
Would you care to see my mother?
Dr. Frederick Treves
Your mother? Yes, please.
[surprised]
Mrs. Treves
Oh but she's... Mr. Merrick, she's beautiful!
John Merrick
Oh, she had the face of an angel! I must have been a great disappointment to her.
[sadly]
Mrs. Treves
No, Mr. Merrick, no! No son as loving as you could ever be a disappointment.
John Merrick
If only I could find her, so she could see me with such lovely friends here now; perhaps she could love me as I am. I've tried so hard to be good.
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The Nature of Resistance in a Totalitarian Society
O'Brien
There are thought criminals who maintain that the resistance is not real. Believe me, Winston, it is very real. Perhaps you are not familiar with how it operates.
Winston Smith
I am attentive to the news.
O'Brien
Indeed. Then perhaps you imagine a huge network of conspirators prepared to commit any atrocity to weaken and demoralise the order of our society. The reality is infinitely more subtle. If ] himself fell into the hands of the Thought Police, he could not give them a list of his agents. Such a list does not exist. They are not an organisation in the sense we know. Nothing holds it together but an idea. Individually, they cheat, forge, blackmail, corrupt children, spread disease and prostitution, in the name of spreading knowledge from generation to generation, until... in a thousand years...
[[w:Emmanuel Goldstein|Goldstein]
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Greeting the Most Revered Bird
Richard Forbush
Most revered and welcome bird! I greet you!
[as he spots the first lone penguin waddling down a snowy hillside]
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