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• The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.

  George Orwell

  Memories, Party, Past

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.

  George Orwell

  Country, Real, Book

  George Orwell (1953). “Shooting an Elephant: And Other Essays”

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• It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Struggle, Fighting

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Nineteen eighty-four”

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• It was intended that when Newspeak had been adopted once and for all and Oldspeak forgotten, a heretical thought...should be literally unthinkable, at least so far as thought is dependent on words.

  George Orwell

  Forgotten, Should, Adopted

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• As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

  George Orwell

  Writing, Flying, Trying

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.

  George Orwell

  Fear, Party, Important

  "1984".

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• Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

  George Orwell

  Latin, Greek, Notion

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.161, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Past, Secret

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.164, Arcturus Publishing

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• Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull.

  George Orwell

  Skulls, Eyes Watching

  George Orwell (2013). “Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Annotated Edition”, p.42, Penguin UK

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• The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

  George Orwell

  Intelligent, Men, Personality

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.130, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them.

  George Orwell

  Country, Games, Two

  George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: In front of your nose, 1945-1950”

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• When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.

  George Orwell

  Art, Lying, Book

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding eye. Like the sun in the sky, Comrade Napoleon! Thou are the giver of All thy creatures love, Full belly twice a day, clean straw to roll upon; Every beast great or small, Sleeps at peace in his stall, Thou watchest over all, Comrade Napoleon! Had I a sucking-pig, Ere he had grown as big Even as a pint bottle or a a rolling-pin He should have learned to be Faithful and true to thee, Yes, his first squeak should be Comrade Napoleon!

  George Orwell

  Sleep, Eye, Fire

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• Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.

  George Orwell

  Wisdom, Marketing, Buckets

  Attributed

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• The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.

  George Orwell

  Water, Poetry, Literature

  The Road toWigan Pier ch. 11 (1937)

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• I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.

  George Orwell

  Fighting, Men, Class

  "The Road to Wigan Pier". Book by George Orwell (Diary 6-10 February), March 8, 1937.

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• they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!

  George Orwell

  Heart, Years, Tears

  George Orwell, Duncan Macmillan, Robert Icke (2013). “1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)”, p.45, Oberon Books

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• Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

  George Orwell

  Liberty, Ribbons

  "Complete novels of George Orwell".

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• The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Voice, Profanity

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.55, Arcturus Publishing

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• It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Law, Hot

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.14, Hamilton Books

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• No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

  George Orwell

  Learning, Unhappy, Looks

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition.

  George Orwell

  Book, Facts, Praise

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.265, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Winston worked in the RECORDS DEPARTMENT (a single branch of the Ministry of Truth) editing and writing for The Times. He dictated into a machine called a Speakwrite. Winston would receive articles or news-items which for one reason or another it was thought necessary to alter, or, in Newspeak, rectify. If, for example, the Ministry of Plenty forecast a surplus, and in reality the result was grossly less, Winston's job was to change previous versions so the old version would agree with the new one.

  George Orwell

  Jobs, Writing, Reality

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• As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

  George Orwell

  War, Thinking, Lakes

  George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.

  George Orwell

  Fun, Fall, Pie

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944”

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