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George Orwell

Burmese Days

  • Aselle Yevdokimova-Sugurbayevahas quoted3 years ago
    My friend, you do not think that. If truly you disapproved of the British Empire, you would not be talking of it privately here. You would be proclaiming it from the housetops.
  • Aselle Yevdokimova-Sugurbayevahas quoted3 years ago
    too terrible to have to walk about in this sun every day.’
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted4 years ago
    Ma Kin bent her head over her sewing. She was a simple, old-fashioned woman, who had learned even less of European habits than U Po Kyin. She could not sit on a chair without discomfort.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted5 years ago
    He who had once been obscure and hungry was now fat, rich and feared. He was swollen with the bodies of his enemies; a thought from which he extracted something very near poetry.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted5 years ago
    His practice, a much safer one, was to take bribes from both sides and then decide the case on strictly legal grounds. This won him a useful reputation for impartiality.
  • Дмитрий Кувшиновhas quoted5 years ago
    In his childish way he had grasped that his own people were no match for this race of giants. To fight on the side of the British, to become a parasite upon them, had been his ruling ambition, even as a child.
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