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• The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

  George Orwell

  Memories, Past, Agree Upon

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

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• This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright.

  George Orwell

  Thinking, People, House

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

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• We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

  George Orwell

  Running, Food, Gun

  George Orwell (2016). “The Road to Wigan Pier”, p.67, Jester House Publishing

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• The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living.

  George Orwell

  Warfare, Machines, Use

  George Orwell (1963). “George Orwell's 1984”, p.60, Dramatic Publishing

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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

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.130, Lulu.com

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• Some things ARE true, even though the party says they are true.

  George Orwell

  Party

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• When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

  George Orwell

  Honesty, Writing, Views

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• The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Men, Pigs

  Animal Farm ch. 10 (1945)

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• The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

  George Orwell

  Art, Attitude, Should Have

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The heresy of heresies was common sense.

  George Orwell

  Common Sense, Common, Heresy

  George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.64, Arcturus Publishing

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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

  George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

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• The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham .

  George Orwell

  Modern, Frills

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• If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

  George Orwell

  Keeping Secrets, Nineteen, Kept Secrets

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 4 (1949)

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• No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

  George Orwell

  Equality, Reform, Literature

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

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• Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak.

  George Orwell

  Strong, Simple, Gun

  George Orwell (1968). “The collected essays, journalism, and letters of George Orwell”

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• Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

  George Orwell

  Happiness, Acceptance, Literature

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• When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.

  George Orwell

  Blood, Enemy, Flesh

  George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones.

  George Orwell

  Break, Bigs, Ifs

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.225, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.

  George Orwell

  Reality, Skulls, Mind

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.569, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

  George Orwell

  God, Atheist, Atheism

  Down and Out in Paris and London ch. 30 (1933)

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• I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

  George Orwell

  Fashion, Lying, Believe

  "Looking Back on the SpanishWar" sec. 4 (1942)

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• If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.

  George Orwell

  Exercise, Graves, Ifs

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

  George Orwell

  Work, Progress, Illusion

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.

  George Orwell

  Power, Self, Deception

  George Orwell (2005). “In defence of English cooking”, Penguin Hardcover

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• And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive.

  George Orwell

  War, Practice, Long

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

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