“I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us .' - Julia” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 percent of the population exist. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“...and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse–hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found generally true: that ages… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I trust that every animal here appreciates the sacrifice that Comrade Napoleon has made in taking this extra labour upon himself. Do… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened —that, surely,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Salvador Dalí’s aberrations are partly explicable. Perhaps they are a way of assuring himself that he is not commonplace. The two qualities… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Now that I have made this catalogue of swindles and perversions, let me give another example of the kind of writing that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The point is that you have here a direct, unmistakable assault on sanity and decency; and even - since some of Dali’s… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In an age like our own, when the artist is an altogether exceptional person, he must be allowed a certain amount of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Each of these passages has faults of its own, but, quite apart from avoidable ugliness, two qualities are common to all of… — 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
