Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLThe 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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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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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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The object of power is power.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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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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Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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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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