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• During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces.

  George Orwell

  War, Two, Months

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

  George Orwell

  Minorities, Lunatic

  George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.89, Oberon Books

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• Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.

  George Orwell

  Blood, Water, Hunger

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell and the dispossessed: Down and out in Paris and London in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from The complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb.

  George Orwell

  Book, Past, Player

  George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

  George Orwell

  Exercise, Graves, Ifs

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a ‘case’, obscuring the opponent’s point of view and avoiding awkward questions.

  George Orwell

  War, Views, Opponents

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: My country right or left, 1940-1943”

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• There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves.

  George Orwell

  People, Phrases, Trouble

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• During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.

  George Orwell

  Art, Generations, Nine

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

  George Orwell

  Believe, Past, Minorities

  "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Book by George Orwell, 1949.

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• International football is the continuation of war by other means.

  George Orwell

  Soccer, Football, War

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• In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

  George Orwell

  Book, People, Littles

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• [Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

  George Orwell

  Political Language, House, Together

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.159, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

  George Orwell

  Average, Class, Soul

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife.

  George Orwell

  Solitude, Taste, Dangerous

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 8 (1949)

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• ... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Simple, Long

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

  George Orwell

  Pieces, Paper, Appeals

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

  George Orwell

  Country, Spain, Easy

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.

  George Orwell

  Cutting, Years, Common Humanity

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

  George Orwell

  Army, Looks, Retreat

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.28, Lulu.com

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• I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.

  George Orwell

  Men, Weight Loss, Literature

  Coming up For Air (1939) pt. 1, ch. 3. See also Cyril Connolly (3.85)

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• If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

  George Orwell

  Men, Lasts, 1984 Movie

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.360, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

  George Orwell

  Past, Sea, Monsters

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives.

  George Orwell

  War, Historical, Inanimate Objects

  George Orwell (2016). “Fifty Essays (George Orwell) (Literary Thoughts Edition)”, p.502, epubli

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• If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Happens, Floats

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.210, Arcturus Publishing

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• There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve.

  George Orwell

  Sex, Twelve, Example

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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