Tag: George Orwell
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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
George Orwell
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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
George Orwell
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
George Orwell
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
George Orwell
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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
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Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell
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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.
George Orwell
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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.
George Orwell
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell
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For a creative writer possession of the ‘truth’ is less important than emotional sincerity.
George Orwell