There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free… — 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
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long… — 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
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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share
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