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In real life it is always the ...

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...

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It's a beautiful thing, the de...

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

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Writing a book is a horrible, ...

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

George Orwell 848 quotes

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a...

Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.

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Even through the shut window p...

Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.

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Gordon eyed them with inert ha...

Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

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Mrs Weaver nosed among the boo...

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

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The most effective way to dest...

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

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It is a feeling of relief, alm...

It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.

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We shall meet in the place whe...

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

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'A minority of one'... the d...

'A minority of one'... the definition of insanity.

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To a surprising extent the war...

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

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By 'nationalism' I mean first ...

By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or 'bad'...By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for

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The creatures outside looked f...

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

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Perhaps one did not want to be...

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

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A scrupulous writer, in every ...

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

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He loved Big Brother....

He loved Big Brother.

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Pacifism is objectively pro-fa...

Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'.

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To see what is in front of one...

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

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The greatest enemy of clear la...

The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.

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