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George Orwell Quote - Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

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Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL

Freedom Hear Justice Right Speech Want
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
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Believe Myth One Liner True
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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Betrayal Confession Love Matter Stop
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Corruption Language Polite
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
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Play Serious Sports
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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Freedom Ignorance Peace Slave Strength War
Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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Amuse Extraordinary Fate Joke Play Series
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
GEORGE ORWELL

Comment Failure Speak Work
The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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Book Knowledge Reading
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Drift Society Speak Truth
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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Aim Degrade Human Joke Remind
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
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Again Choose Human Mind Pieces Power Togetherness
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL

Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth Universal
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
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Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
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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Judgement People Thinking Writing
The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.
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Continue War Win
He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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Face Fit Growth Mask One Liner Wear
Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
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Against Defense Politics Represent War
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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Transparent Window Writing
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
GEORGE ORWELL

Deny Destroy Effective History People Understand
It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
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Beautiful Book Destruction Reading
Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
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Deep Love Understand Want
To die hating them, that was freedom.
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Die Freedom Hate
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
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Corruption Live Tolerance
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
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Enemy One Liner Truth
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
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Believe Ideas Intellectual Stupidity
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
GEORGE ORWELL

Concept Fade History Lie Objective Truth World

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