“But a child’s belief in its own shortcomings is not much influenced by facts.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The only recognized purpose of marriage was to beget children for the service of the Party. Sexual” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children. And with good reason, for hardly a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling filled up… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There were a few exotics among them—some South American boys, sons of Argentine beef barons, one or two Russians, and even a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone you loved… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming period… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle… — 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
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