George Orwell Quotes — Page 29

Writer, Journalist

Philosophical

“Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.”

Writing Artist Successful

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George Orwell

Writer, Journalist

Grateful

“All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.”

Years Strong Tea

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Philosophical

“If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out”

Cutting Simile

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Courageous

“All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.”

Art Hands

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Philosophical

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name.”

Names Secret Shapes

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Courageous

“In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.”

Past Principles Achievement

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Philosophical

“The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about.”

Party Care

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Grateful

“Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.”

Country Civilization

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Courageous

“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 it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives",and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him.He wears a mask and his face grows to fit it.”

Men Tyrants White Man

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Philosophical

“It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence... Comrade Oglivy, who had never existed in the present, now existed in the past, and when once the act of forgery was forgotten, he would exist just as authentically, and upon the same evidence, as Charlemagne or Julius Caesar.”

Past Couple Lines

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Philosophical

“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.”

Pain Effort Special

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Creative

“Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.”

People Writing Political

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