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George Orwell Inspirational Quotes (411)

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The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing
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The end was contained in the beginning.
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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!
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Do you remember writing in your diary, he said, that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.
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And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.
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In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all.
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We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.
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No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.
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An earthquake is such fun when it is over.
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When I see a policeman with a club beating a man on the ground, I don't have to ask whose side I'm on.
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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.
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For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
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Good writing is like a windowpane.
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The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.
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Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.
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Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.
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Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
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The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.
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Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home what they fear is physical force.
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