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George Orwell
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.”
“To die hating them, that was freedom.”
“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
“He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, ...
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”
“For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unch...
“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I try...
“All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a lon...
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
“Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you...
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and ...
“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the fa...
“But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.”
“War is peace.Freedom is slavery.Ignorance is strength.”
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertak...
“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”
“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for t...
“To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is invo...
