I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
GEORGE ORWELLSerious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
More George Orwell Quotes
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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
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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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The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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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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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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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 most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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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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