Quotes Flashcards
This Boys Life: escape/freedom/dreams vs reality
“Our car boiled over again”
“We were driving from Florida to Utah to get away from a man my mother was afraid of and get rich on uranium”
“We were going to change our luck”
“Her father, Daddy she called him, had been a navy officer and a paper millionaire”
“I drove a little farther each time. Someday, I thought, Iw oddly just keep going”
This Boys Life: deception/guilt/lies/self delusion
“I just couldn’t help myself”
“I believed she must have been in awe of me, and imagined someday representing myself at her door to claim her adoration”
“I was a thief”
“I was a god mimic, or at least a cruel one, and Dwight was an easy target”
“I was a liar. Even thought I lived in a okay where everyone knew who I was, I couldn’t help but try to introduce new versions of myself as my interests changes, and as new other versions failed to persuade. I was also a thief”
This Boys life: family/stability/abuse/dysfunctional
“I imagined being adopted by different people I saw on the street”
“I rocked and murmured to her…Soothing her soothed me”
“Unlike my mother, I was fiercely conventional. I was tempted by the idea of belonging to a conventional family”
“I was my mothers son. I could not be anyone else’s”
“I was just afraid to be alone”
“No, but i was happy that night, listening to them search for me …. and some voices crying Concrete, Concrete, Concrete”
“I hear his voice in my own when I speak to my children in anger”
This Boys Life: identity/self loathing
“I was caught up in my mothers freedom….her dream of transformation”
“I had my own dreams of transformation”
“I wanted to call my sell Jack, after Jack London. I believed that having his name would change me with some kind of strength and competence inherit in my idea of him”
“I thought Roy was what a man should be”
“I needed that riffle, for itself and for the way it completed me when i held it”
“The camouflage coat made me feel like a sniper, and before long I began to act like one”
“All my images of myself I wished to be were images of myself armed”
“Being so close too much robust identity made me feel the poverty of my own”
“We could of looked cool, but we didn’t”
“Made me feel like a solider”
“All of Dwight’s complaints against me had the aim of giving me a definition of myself “
“I had not lead a sheltered life, and that I was determined to get myself a better education than the one I was getting now”
“He asked me who I thought I was. I did not know how to answer this question”
1984
“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”
“You had to live..in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in the darkness every movement scrutinised”
“Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in the bed - no escape. Nothing was your own except the four cubic centimetres inside your skull.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“The past, he reflected had not merely been altered, it had been actually destroyed”
“Sexual intercourse was to be looked on as a slightly disgusting minor operation, like having an enema.”
“If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles.”
“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.”
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus tow make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
“You wanted to have a good time, ‘they’, meaning the Party, wanted to stop you having it; you broke the rules best you could.”
“So long as they were actually in this room, they both felt, no harm could come to them.”
“Do you realise that the past, starting from yesterday, has been abolished”
“It’s the one thing they can’t do. They can make you say anything - anything - but they can’t make you believe it. They can’t get inside you.”
“We control matter because we control the mind, Reality is inside the skull.”
“Room 101”
“He had won victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”
“Even with nothing written in it, it was a compromising possession”
“Thought crime is death. “Thought crime does not entail death. Thought crime IS death. I have committed even before setting pen to paper the essential crime that contains all others unto itself”
“Your the last man”
Stasiland
“When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human”
“I still have the scars on my hands from climbing the barbed wire”
“By no fault of her own, Julia Behrend had fallen into the gap of the GDR’s fiction and it’s reality”
“This land gone wrong”
“There is no such thing as unemployment”
“ to remember or forget, which is healthier?”
“There is no such thing as unemployment”
“The most perfected surveillance state of all time”
“I could not see how i could go on and live a life in this world again, let alone a normal life”
“I became officially an enemy of the state at age sixteen. At sixteen”
“She is brave and stop and broken all at once”
“It’s the total surveillance that damaged me the worst”
“…The GDR was like a religion. It was something I was brought up to believe in…”
“A guard watched through the peephole and banged on the door if she nodded off”
“Perhaps they beat something out of her that she didn’t get back”
“I was prohibited from studying. And i couldn’t get any kind of job”
“Does telling your story mean that you are free of it?”
