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Used Quotes by George Orwell
- You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the darts…
- Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised…
- The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering…
- War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
- There exists a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of…
- Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a…
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