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1  He seemed glad of the opportunity to talk.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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2  In the street it was usually possible to talk, after a fashion.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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3  People in the Records Department did not readily talk about their jobs.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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4  To talk to him was like listening to the tinkling of a worn-out musical-box.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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5  He usually stopped to talk with Mr. Charrington for a few minutes on his way upstairs.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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6  There was much talk about the forced-labour camps to which most of the prisoners expected to be sent.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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7  You are thinking that I talk of power, and yet I am not even able to prevent the decay of my own body.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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8  There was a deal table under the window where he and the old man could talk without fear of being overheard.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
9  But with luck, in the middle of the crowd, it would be safe to talk for a quarter of an hour and arrange another meeting.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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10  Sometimes, too, they talked of engaging in active rebellion against the Party, but with no notion of how to take the first step.
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  In some sense that went deeper than friendship, they were intimates: somewhere or other, although the actual words might never be spoken, there was a place where they could meet and talk.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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13  He would talk with a disagreeable gloating satisfaction of helicopter raids on enemy villages, and trials and confessions of thought-criminals, the executions in the cellars of the Ministry of Love.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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14  She had no memories of anything before the early sixties and the only person she had ever known who talked frequently of the days before the Revolution was a grandfather who had disappeared when she was eight.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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15  THEM, it appeared, meant the Party, and above all the Inner Party, about whom she talked with an open jeering hatred which made Winston feel uneasy, although he knew that they were safe here if they could be safe anywhere.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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16  Whenever he began to talk of the principles of Ingsoc, doublethink, the mutability of the past, and the denial of objective reality, and to use Newspeak words, she became bored and confused and said that she never paid any attention to that kind of thing.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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17  He had hoped to be alone for a little while during the lunch hour, but as bad luck would have it the imbecile Parsons flopped down beside him, the tang of his sweat almost defeating the tinny smell of stew, and kept up a stream of talk about the preparations for Hate Week.
Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
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