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“Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.”
-- George Orwell
#Writing #Window #Should
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“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
-- George Orwell
#Doe #Want #Journalism
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“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
-- George Orwell
#Inspirational #Life #People
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“And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.”
-- George Orwell
#Dog #Book #Reading
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“The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.”
-- George Orwell
#Lying #Choices #Mankind
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“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”
-- George Orwell
#Strength #Wisdom #Veterans Day
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“A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.”
-- George Orwell
#Men #Ugly #May
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“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
-- George Orwell
#Inspirational #Life #Freedom
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“The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .”
-- George Orwell
#Modern
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“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
-- George Orwell
#Inspirational #Inspiring #Wisdom
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“By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.”
-- George Orwell
#Writing #Effort #Leaving
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“He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother”
-- George Orwell
#Brother #Taken #Struggle
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“There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later:”
-- George Orwell
#Attitude #Book #Mind
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“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.”
-- George Orwell
#Book #Party #Politics
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“Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same.”
-- George Orwell
#Opposites #Devotion #Conservatism
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“It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.”
-- George Orwell
#Fall #People #Over You
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“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”
-- George Orwell
#Inspirational #Life #Hate
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“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
-- George Orwell
#Funny #Sarcasm #Equality
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“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”
-- George Orwell
#Real #Lefties #Division
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“That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”
-- George Orwell
#Jobs #Wall #Class
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“The object of terrorism is terrorism. The object of oppression is oppression. The object of torture is torture. The object of murder is murder. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?”
-- George Orwell
#Murder #Terrorism #Oppression
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“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”
-- George Orwell
#Country #Money #War
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“What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.”
-- George Orwell
#Stupidity #Instinct #Cowardice
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“You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.”
-- George Orwell
#Eye #Two #Trying
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“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
-- George Orwell
#Freedom #War #Ignorance
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“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”
-- George Orwell
#Book #Insight
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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.”
-- George Orwell
#Struggle #Book #Writing
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“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”
-- George Orwell
#April #Cold #Clock
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
-- George Orwell
#Dream #Time #Peace
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“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
-- George Orwell
#Men #Intelligent #Intelligence
