"A dirty joke is not, of course,..." - Quote by George Orwell
A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise.
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“Between pigs and human beings there was not and there need not be any clash of interest whatsoever.”
“Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.”
“To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.”
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“Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.”
“I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.”
“I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for.”
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“They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom”
“I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.”
“[In school] I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.”