Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
GEORGE ORWELLYou must be an intellectual. A normal person would never believe a thing like that.
More George Orwell Quotes
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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.
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Let’s face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.
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News is something somebody doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising.
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Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments
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The greatest enemy of clear language is insincerity.
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The best books are those that tell you what you know already.
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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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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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I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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