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Trying Quotes by George Orwell
- 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.…
- I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
- A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And…
- As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
- A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2.…
- You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two…
- It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.…
- Nearly all creators of utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... whoever tries to imagine…
- You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
- The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you…
- The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to…
- When the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys.He becomes a sort of hollow,posing dummy,the conventional figure of a sahib.For…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to… — Antonin Artaud
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash