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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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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Fit Growth Mask One Liner Wear
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELL

Goodness Human Quite Time
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELL

Transparent Window Writing
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL

Follow Freedom Grant Politics
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
GEORGE ORWELL

Men Night Peace People Ready Sleep Violence
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
GEORGE ORWELL

Act Deceit Revolution Time Truth
Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your own nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.
GEORGE ORWELL

Enemy Liable Moments Reflection System Tension Translation Worst
We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Change Destroy Enemy
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Future Generation Imagination Intelligence Wisdom
The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.
GEORGE ORWELL

Erase Forget Lie Past Truth
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play.
GEORGE ORWELL

Play Serious Sports
Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.
GEORGE ORWELL

Beauty One Liner Positive Share
Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution.
GEORGE ORWELL

Joke One Liner Revolution
Politics is the choice between the lesser of two evils.
GEORGE ORWELL

Choice Evil Politics
To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country.
GEORGE ORWELL

Corruption Live Tolerance
Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism.
GEORGE ORWELL

Conservation One Liner Patriotism
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
GEORGE ORWELL

Character Goodness Possible Test
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Judgement People Thinking Writing
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy.
GEORGE ORWELL

Enemy One Liner Truth
In the face of pain there are no heroes.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Hard Time Hero Motivational One Liner Pain Struggle
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
GEORGE ORWELL

Acceptance Belief Contradict Power
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.
GEORGE ORWELL

Against Defense Politics Represent War
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
Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
GEORGE ORWELL

Face Labour Live Miserable
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.
GEORGE ORWELL

Break Business Inspirational Rule
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
The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.
GEORGE ORWELL

Drift Society Speak Truth

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