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Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?

George Orwell

Honesty, Lying, Fall

George Orwell (1998). “A patriot after all, 1940-1941”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.

George Orwell

Tails, Given

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.1, Hamilton Books

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You were the dead; theirs was the future.

George Orwell

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.169, Arcturus Publishing

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On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that ‘six handsome bulls’ would be killed in the arena on such and such a date. How forlorn its faded colours looked. Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays - for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists.

George Orwell

Wall, Years, Dating

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The end was contained in the beginning.

George Orwell

Ends

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.121, Arcturus Publishing

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And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

George Orwell

Cry, Moments, Hundred

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.169, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The fight against bad English is not frivolous.

George Orwell

Fighting, Frivolous

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible.

George Orwell

Men, Long, Important

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.

George Orwell

Hands, Long, Together

George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.

George Orwell

Disappointment, Law, Long

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.47, Hamilton Books

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On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.

George Orwell

Brother, Wall, Moving

1949 Nineteen Eighty-Four, pt.1, ch.1.

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Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.

George Orwell

Pain, Wish, Earth

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.515, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

George Orwell

Groups, Scarcity, Hardship

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.414, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

George Orwell

Pain, Hatred, Sorrow

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important.

George Orwell

Loss, Differences, Profound

George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1999). “A kind of compulsion, 1903-1936”, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class.

George Orwell

Character, Class, Ordinary

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

George Orwell

Thinking, Interesting, Details

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts board to the bar, and from the bar to the door of the Gents ... "The beer was better," he said finally. "And cheaper! When I was a young man, mild beer - wallop we used to call it - was fourpence a pint. That was before the war, of course." "Which war was that?" said Winston. "It's all wars," said the old man vaguely. He took up his glass, and his shoulders straightened again. "'Ere's wishing you the very best of 'ealth!

George Orwell

War, Eye, Beer

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It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve.

George Orwell

Lying, Party, Insecurity

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.60, Arcturus Publishing

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He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.

George Orwell

Writing, Skins, Ankles

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.

George Orwell

Attitude, Writing, Emotional

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

George Orwell

Power, Bombs, Faces

George Orwell (1987). “The complete works of George Orwell: Animal farm”

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Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.

George Orwell

People, Matter, Way

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not?

George Orwell

Beautiful, Why Not, Body

George Orwell (1982). “Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four: Text, Sources, Criticism”, Harcourt

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Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

George Orwell

Book, Order, Weavers

George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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Born: June 25, 1903
Died: January 21, 1950
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