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 ORWELLBut if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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The only good human being is a dead one.
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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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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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There is no swifter route to the corruption of thought than through the corruption of language.
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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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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
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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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The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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