By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The modern writer who has influenced me most is W. Somerset Maugham . — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I'm not interested in the next generation, dear. I'm interested in us .' - Julia” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than just ribbons? — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“His function is to act as a focusing point for love, fear, and reverence, emotions which are more easily felt towards an… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the… — 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
“The main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“I have no particular love for the idealized “worker” as he appears in the bourgeois Communist’s mind, but when I see an… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable… — 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
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection � that one is prepared in the end to be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?“ Winston thought. “By making him suffer”, he said. “Exactly. By making him… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When I was young and had no sense In far-off Mandalay I lost my heart to a Burmese girl As lovely as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is devilish to suffer from a pain that is all but nameless. Blessed are they who are stricken only with classifiable… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“In the old days, he thought, a man looked at a girl’s body and saw that it was desirable, and that was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Do not imagine that you will save yourself, however completely you surrender to us. No one who has once gone astray is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not money, I am become as a sounding brass,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't… — 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
