Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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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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Sanity is not statistical.
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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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The only good human being is a dead one.
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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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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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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