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• He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?

  George Orwell

  Summer, Lying, Past

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Space, Identity

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.351, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

  George Orwell

  Pedants, Poet, Joyce

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way.

  George Orwell

  Dust, Years, Knowing

  George Orwell (2003). “Nineteen Eighty-four”, Penguin Mass Market

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• Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--

  George Orwell

  Tree, Nineteen, Chestnuts

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 7 (1949)

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• People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.

  George Orwell

  Night, Names, People

  George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.19, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?

  George Orwell

  Want, Animalism, Comrade

  Peter Hall, George Orwell (1993). “The Play of George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.31, Heinemann

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• From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

  George Orwell

  Book, Writing, Should Have

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.

  George Orwell

  Book, Penguins, Splendid

  George Orwell, Sonia Orwell, Ian Angus (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940”, Harvill Secker

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• Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

  George Orwell

  Honesty, Lying, Fall

  George Orwell (1998). “A patriot after all, 1940-1941”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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• The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

  George Orwell

  Past, Race, Years

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Pleasure, Masters

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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• To accept an unorthodoxy is always to inherit unresolved contradictions

  George Orwell

  Ideas, Inheritance, Contradiction

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• Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.

  George Orwell

  Impact, Sound, Pleasure

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.

  George Orwell

  Fear, Stupid, People

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.86, Lulu.com

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• All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

  George Orwell

  Selfish, Lying, Writing

  1946 'Why I Write'.

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• It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a baby at 50 and middle-aged at seventy-five, it is natural that anyone who has not actually been disgraced should feel that he still has a future.

  George Orwell

  Baby, Political, Natural

  George Orwell (1968). “The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell”

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• Four legs gooood, two legs baaad!

  George Orwell

  Two, Legs, Four

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• Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

  George Orwell

  Flower, Fruit, Should

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• The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.

  George Orwell

  Hate, Animal, Humans

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.24, Hamilton Books

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• they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.

  George Orwell

  Dog, Mind, Watches

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

  George Orwell

  Wisdom, Class, Soul

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

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• He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

  George Orwell

  Tails, Given

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.1, Hamilton Books

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• Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, Everyday, Phrases

  George Orwell (1958). “Selected writings”

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• It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.

  George Orwell

  Loss, Mysterious Things, Mysterious

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

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