The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was very unlikely that there existed anywhere in Oceania a copy of a book printed earlier than 1960. The” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If one faces facts one must admit that nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron—they’ll exist only in Newspeak versions,” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When a novel lacks the indefinable, unmistakable thing we call beauty, one looks in it for sound delineation of character, or humour… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“These books can be read, independently of their time and place, as a strong preventive medicine against the mentality of servility, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He was alone with seven thousand books...mostly aged and unsaleable.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Reading Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge's brilliant and depressing book, "The Thirties", I thought of a rather cruel trick I once played on a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
