The woman at the desk was a university graduate, young, colourless, spectacled, and intensely disagreeable. She had a fixed suspicion that no one – at least, no male person – ever consulted works of reference except in search of pornography. As soon as you approached she pierced you through and through with a flash of her pince-nez and let you know that your dirty secret was no secret from HER. After all, all works of reference are pornographical, except perhaps Whitaker’s Almanack. You can put even the Oxford Dictionary to evil purposes by looking up words like –– and ––. George Orwell
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  1. Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their mind. - Susan Sontag

  2. A sex worker deserves a billion times more respect, than the mystical fraudsters of the society, such as astrologers, psychics and tarot card readers. - Abhijit Naskar

  3. Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. - Jonathan Haidt

  4. Is it colour?’‘ Oh yes.’‘ You don’t let me down. You are my ambassador to pr0n, man. - Christopher Brookmyre

  5. The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more. - Susan Sontag

More Quotes By George Orwell
  1. Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.

  2. At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

  3. This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

  4. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

  5. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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