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1  You will have read about it in books, no doubt.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  The fields are cultivated with horse-ploughs while books are written by machinery.
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3  We can only read about them in books, and what it says in the books may not be true.
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4  One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books.
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5  The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now.
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6  It was not true, for example, as was claimed in the Party history books, that the Party had invented aeroplanes.
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7  On coins, on stamps, on the covers of books, on banners, on posters, and on the wrappings of a cigarette packet--everywhere.
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8  The hunting-down and destruction of books had been done with the same thoroughness in the prole quarters as everywhere else.
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9  There were the armies of reference clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall.
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10  It might very well be that literally every word in the history books, even the things that one accepted without question, was pure fantasy.
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11  Reports and records of all kinds, newspapers, books, pamphlets, films, sound-tracks, photographs--all had to be rectified at lightning speed.
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12  He said things that would have been better unsaid, he had read too many books, he frequented the Chestnut Tree Cafe, haunt of painters and musicians.
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13  Newspapers and history books were, of course, always coloured and biased, but falsification of the kind that is practised today would have been impossible.
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14  As compared with last year there was more food, more clothes, more houses, more furniture, more cooking-pots, more fuel, more ships, more helicopters, more books, more babies--more of everything except disease, crime, and insanity.
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15  The largest section of the Records Department, far larger than the one on which Winston worked, consisted simply of persons whose duty it was to track down and collect all copies of books, newspapers, and other documents which had been superseded and were due for destruction.
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16  This process of continuous alteration was applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs--to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance.
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17  But what was strange was that although Goldstein was hated and despised by everybody, although every day and a thousand times a day, on platforms, on the telescreen, in newspapers, in books, his theories were refuted, smashed, ridiculed, held up to the general gaze for the pitiful rubbish that they were--in spite of all this, his influence never seemed to grow less.
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