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We were once told that the aeroplane had "abolished frontiers"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable.

George Orwell

Air Power, Weapons, Serious

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

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Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.

George Orwell

Impact, Sound, Pleasure

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.227, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

George Orwell

Flower, Fruit, Should

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We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?

George Orwell

Years, Knowing, Together

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.

George Orwell

Law, Profound, Wickedness

George Orwell, Peter Hobley Davison, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “It is what I think: 1947-1948”

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A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust.

George Orwell

Men, Obesity, Robust

George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.

George Orwell

Done, Fool

"Shooting an Elephant" (1936)

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One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

George Orwell

Life And Death, Alive, Want

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

George Orwell

Facts, Language, Said

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.324, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.

George Orwell

Animal, Pleasure, Masters

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.

George Orwell

Heart, Rooms, Crystals

George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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How right the working classes are in their "materialism." How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!

George Orwell

Wisdom, Class, Soul

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.164, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends or our enemies? Let us put it to the vote. I propose this question to the meeting: Are rats comrades?" The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides.

George Orwell

Dog, Taken, Cat

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.3, Hamilton Books

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What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning.

George Orwell

Years, Work Out, Secret

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

George Orwell

Song, Military, Lectures

George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.

George Orwell

Gun, Heroism, Mouths

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.167, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?

George Orwell

Writing, Heart, Pennies

George Orwell (1987). “Keep the Aspidistra Flying”, Harvill Secker

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Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?

George Orwell

Want, Animalism, Comrade

Peter Hall, George Orwell (1993). “The Play of George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.31, Heinemann

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I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production.

George Orwell

Book, Taken, Voice

George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

George Orwell

World, Want, This World

George Orwell (1976). “The Penguin complete novels of George Orwell”

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Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.

George Orwell

War, Party, Intelligent

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.416, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

George Orwell

Jobs, Book, Feelings

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.289, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

George Orwell

Country, War, Remember

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Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

George Orwell

Ideas, World, Impossible

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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.

George Orwell

War, Battle, Eton

The Lion and the Unicorn pt. 1, sec. 4 (1941) SeeWellington 7

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