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- To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full…
- There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought…
- Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable…
- I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was…
- No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through…
- In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible... Thus, political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging, and…
- The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong,…
- A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut.…
- The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened…
- Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing…
- Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to…
- All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with…
- By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
- In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
- Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
- The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
- Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are…
- He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a…
- To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live…
- Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a…
- they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my…
- It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn…
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