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Word Quotes by George Orwell
- Never use a long word where a short one will do.
- Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
- If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out
- It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing…
- The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'
- It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim…
- 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…
- His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact,…
- it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have…
- How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper,…
- They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear,…
- Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there…
- There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man
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- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
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