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Above Quotes by George Orwell
- The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is…
- Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness.
- The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms…
- He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring…
- So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon…
- To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a…
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