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• Man's greatest drive is not love or hate but to change another person's writing.

  George Orwell

  Hate, Writing, Men

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• No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Causes, Farms

  George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.

  George Orwell

  Alcohol, Doubt, Saint

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

  George Orwell

  Love, Children, Adults

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

  George Orwell

  Faces, Miserable, Our Lives

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell and Politics”, p.281, Penguin UK

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• All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.

  George Orwell

  Art, Hands, Propaganda

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• If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

  George Orwell

  Book, Gulliver, Lists

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To die hating them, that was freedom.

  George Orwell

  Hate, Dies

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.212, Arcturus Publishing

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• "A minority of one"... the definition of insanity.

  George Orwell

  Crazy, Insanity, Minorities

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• For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

  George Orwell

  Love, Writing, Heart

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Within any important issue, there are always aspects no one wishes to discuss.

  George Orwell

  Issues, Wish, Important

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• The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

  George Orwell

  Latin, Fall, Political Language

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.282, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

  George Orwell

  Running, Writing, Past

  George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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• There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Class, People

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• A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

  George Orwell

  Men, Tragedy, Triumph

  George Orwell (2009). “Critical Essays”

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• You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.

  George Orwell

  Eye, Two, Trying

  George Orwell (2001). “The Complete Novels of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Burmese Days, A Clergyman's Daughter, Coming Up for Air, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, Nineteen Eighty-Four”, p.1346, Penguin UK

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• 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.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Knowing, Anxiety

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.

  George Orwell

  Names, Secret, Shapes

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.212, Arcturus Publishing

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• There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

  George Orwell

  Funny, Clever, Smart

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.344, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Voice, Stupidity

  1941 In the Partisan Review,15 Apr. Reprinted in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters, vol.2.

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• Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.

  George Orwell

  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

  George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “Smothered under journalism: 1946”

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• A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

  George Orwell

  Dirty, Naughty, Nasty

  Horizon Sept. 1941 "The Art of Donald McGill"

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• The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Dignity, Evolution

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.

  George Orwell

  Sleep, People, Interesting

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• People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.

  George Orwell

  Life, Death, War

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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