George Orwell Short Quotes

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At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.

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One cannot really be a Catholic and grown-up.

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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

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The only ism that has justified itself is pessimism.

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Nationalism is power-hunger tempered by self-deception.

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One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing.

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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.

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Of England:
How can one make a pattern out of this muddle?

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

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The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

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It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.

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In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...

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The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

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My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

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Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.

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Something half way between a girls' school and a lunatic asylum.
On the atmosphere at the BBC

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To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

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It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.

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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

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Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

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Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

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The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it.

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To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

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Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

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The stars are a free show; it don't cost anything to use your eyes

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

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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

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He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

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