TELESCREEN in Classic Quotes

1  The voice from the telescreen paused.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  The music from the telescreen had stopped.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  Winston kept his back turned to the telescreen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  The telescreen had changed over to strident military music.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  For some reason the telescreen in the living-room was in an unusual position.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  He went back to the living-room and sat down at a small table that stood to the left of the telescreen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  Back in the flat he stepped quickly past the telescreen and sat down at the table again, still rubbing his neck.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  He had set his features into the expression of quiet optimism which it was advisable to wear when facing the telescreen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  By sitting in the alcove, and keeping well back, Winston was able to remain outside the range of the telescreen, so far as sight went.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  But at any rate he had the appearance of being a person that you could talk to if somehow you could cheat the telescreen and get him alone.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  Behind Winston's back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  In another room someone with a comb and a piece of toilet paper was trying to keep tune with the military music which was still issuing from the telescreen.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the Records Department, where Winston worked, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  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.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  And all the while, lest one should be in any doubt as to the reality which Goldstein's specious claptrap covered, behind his head on the telescreen there marched the endless columns of the Eurasian army--row after row of solid-looking men with expressionless Asiatic faces, who swam up to the surface of the screen and vanished, to be replaced by others exactly similar.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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