Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
More George Orwell Quotes
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
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You must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
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To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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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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