On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
GEORGE ORWELLWriting 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.
More George Orwell Quotes
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
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Rich people are poor people with money.
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We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
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Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.
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The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
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In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.
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Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.
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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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We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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The people will believe what the media tells them they believe.
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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.
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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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