Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLThe creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
More George Orwell Quotes
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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