He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
GEORGE ORWELLWriting 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave.
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In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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