Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
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Sanity is not statistical.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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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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Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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