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George Orwell Quotes - Page 25

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I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and

I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

Lonely, Children, Ambition

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Sanity is not statistical.

Inspirational, Sanity

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

Fatigue

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.138, Arcturus Publishing

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

Men, President, Doe

For the future. For the unborn.

Unborn

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

Loyalty, Men, Tears

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.126, Arcturus Publishing

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

Defeat, Series

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

Past, Nineteen, 1984 Important

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

Writing, Style

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

Powerful, Book, Order

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.432, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Anger, Practice, Society

"The Art of Donald McGill". Critical essay by George Orwell, 1941.

Napoleon is always right.

Peter Hall, George Orwell (1993). “The Play of George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.57, Heinemann

For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

Mean, Discovery, Worry

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Lulu.com

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

Average, Income, Suits

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.86, Lulu.com

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

Men, Thinking, Doctors

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.

Children, Years, Singing

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

Fear, Ignorance, Prejudice

He loved Big Brother.

Brother, Bigs

Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 6 (1949)

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

Home, Sweat, Justice

The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 2

He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.

Brother, Couple, Moving

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.219, Arcturus Publishing

From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

Dying, Rebel, Generations

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.454, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

Elements, Consideration, Capacity

Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.

Fear, Mean, Thinking

During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces.

War, Two, Months

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one.

Minorities, Lunatic

George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.89, Oberon Books

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