THEY in Classic Quotes

1  For perhaps as much as thirty seconds they kept it up.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  On the contrary, they adored the Party and everything connected with it.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  It was only later and by degrees that they had seemed to take on significance.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  They're disappointed because they couldn't go to see the hanging, that's what it is.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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9  You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  Only the Thought Police would read what he had written, before they wiped it out of existence and out of memory.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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11  All that they did was to keep alive in him the belief, or hope, that others besides himself were the enemies of the Party.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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12  A momentary hush passed over the group of people round the chairs as they saw the black overalls of an Inner Party member approaching.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  So completely did they dwarf the surrounding architecture that from the roof of Victory Mansions you could see all four of them simultaneously.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  Once when they passed in the corridor she gave him a quick sidelong glance which seemed to pierce right into him and for a moment had filled him with black terror.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically turned into ungovernable little savages, and yet this produced in them no tendency whatever to rebel against the discipline of the Party.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  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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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.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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