69 Quotes About Orwell
- Author George Orwell
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Quien controla el pasado, controla el futuro. Quien controla el presente, controla el pasado (Cap 3, primera parte - 1984)
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- Author George Orwell
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What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolate, was almost the same as being in it. The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.
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- Author George Orwell
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If you look for the working classes in fiction, and especially English fiction, all you find is a hole.
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- Author George Orwell
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To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.
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- Author George Orwell
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Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.
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- Author Anthony Powell
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Like most people in rebellion, he was more than half in love with what he was rebelling against.
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- Author Gideon Haigh
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George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.
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- Author George Orwell
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And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.
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- Author Christopher Hitchens
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Orwell was interested above all not in the rationalizations of the dominant, but in the excuses and whimperings of the submissive.
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