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.
GEORGE ORWELLEvery Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
More George Orwell Quotes
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True freedom is the right to say something that others don’t want to hear.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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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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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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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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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal.
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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.
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