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An earthquake is such fun when it is over.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money.
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It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.
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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
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The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?
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One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.
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It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence.
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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
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A minority of one... the definition of insanity.
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What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.
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They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself
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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
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Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.
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Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
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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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Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it.
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