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George Orwell Quotes: [T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.
         

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.


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This page presents the quote "[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.". Author of this quote is George Orwell. This quote is about ideology, imagination, free-speech, literature, orthodoxy,.