Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLSanity is not statistical.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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If 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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Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose
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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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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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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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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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