“Julia had once been picked out to work in Pornosec, the sub-section of the Fiction Department which turned out cheap pornography for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been re-painted, every statue and street and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I do hope you'll forgive me if I overwhelm you with talk. When I meet somebody who's heard that books exist, I'm… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I often have the feeling that even at the best of times literary criticism is fraudulent, since in the absence of any… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“She spent an astonishing amount of time in attending lectures and demonstrations, distributing literature for the Junior Anti-Sex League, preparing banners for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He got up. It was too early to go to bed; at least, he was not in the mood for it. He… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by… — 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
