“We have now sunk to a depth at which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
George Orwell
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George Orwell
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“There never was, I suppose, in the history of the world a time when the sheer vulgar fatness of wealth, without any kind of aristocratic elegance to redeem it, was so obtrusive as in those years before 1914 … . from the whole decade … there seems to breathe forth a smell of the more vulgar, un-grown-up kinds of luxury, a smell of brilliantine and creme de menthe and soft- centered chocolates–an atmosphere, as it were of eating everlasting strawberry ices on green lawns to the tune of the Eton Boating Song.”
George Orwell
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“The existence of good bad literature–the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one’s intellect simply refuses to take seriously–is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.”
George Orwell
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“The sexual act, successfully performed, was rebellion. Desire was thoughtcrime.”
George Orwell
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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 or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.”
George Orwell
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“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
George Orwell
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“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”
George Orwell
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“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”
George Orwell
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“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
George Orwell
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“A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.”
George Orwell
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“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”
George Orwell
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“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
George Orwell
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“He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).”
George Orwell
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“WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”
George Orwell
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“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others”
George Orwell
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“To see what is in front of one’s nose requires a constant struggle.”
George Orwell
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“To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.”
George Orwell
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“For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.”
George Orwell
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“The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.”
George Orwell
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