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George Orwell Quotes - Page 30

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Do you remember writing in your diary, he said, that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you.

Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

Writing, Talking, Mind

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.556, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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?

Years, Knowing, Together

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

Writing a novel is agony.

Writing, Agony, Novel

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

Men, Brain

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.45, Arcturus Publishing

By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.

Revolution

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

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

War, Winning, Differences

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.203, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Country, War, Remember

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

Waiter, Has Beens

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.17, Lulu.com

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.

War, Party, Intelligent

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

The object of powder is powder.

Powder, Objects

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

Coming Back, Mystical, Absurdity

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place.

Book, Thinking, Hatred

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

What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.

Mother, Children, England

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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.

Jobs, Book, Feelings

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

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

Ideas, World, Impossible

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.

War, Battle, Eton

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

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Children, Real, Thinking

George Orwell (2017). “The Collected Non-Fiction”, Penguin UK

There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man

Men, Answers, Problem

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.

Food, Oil, Cooking

George Orwell (1968). “The Collected Essays, Journalism, and Letters of George Orwell: As I please, 1943-1945”

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

Art, World, Futuristic

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.418, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

World, Want, This World

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

You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.

Answers, World, Rooms

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.373, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

the mute protest in your own bones

Bones, Mute, Protest

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

The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.

Distance, Cat, Animal

George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.11, Hamilton Books

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.

Fighting, Perception, Enemy

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.198, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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