If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELLIf people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
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To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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