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“Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.”
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“He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.”
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“Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”
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“The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are not at home unless they are abroad”
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“The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded”
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“Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards”
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“Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings”
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“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act”
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“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”
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“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”
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“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time”
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