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George Orwell Quotes

«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.»
«There could hardly be a town in the South of England where you could throw a brick without hitting the niece of a bishop.»
Author: George Orwell (Essayist, Novelist) | Keywords: brick, niece
«If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics --a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage --surely that proves that you are in the right?»
Author: George Orwell (Essayist, Novelist) | Keywords: dirtiness
«The existence of good bad literature /the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously /is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.»
«The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.»
«When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.»
Author: George Orwell (Essayist, Novelist) | Keywords: pinch
«The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.»
«There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a madman.»
«It is hard to imagine how the U.N., perhaps the world's most important international organization and one which is widely counted on to preserve the truth, could allow itself to blatantly deviate from history and misinform the world about something so fundamental to its history.»
«But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.»

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