Английские путешественники – это их отличительная черта – по-настоящему не верят в то, что за стенами элегантных отелей существует другая жизнь.
George OrwellБывают моменты, когда лучше драться и проиграть, чем вообще не вступать в драку.
George Orwell...каждая война несет с с собой нарастающее разложение, ибо нельзя совместить эффективное ведение военных действий с личной свободой и честной печатью.
George OrwellIt's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. It isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other words? A word contains its opposite in itself. Take 'good,' for instance. If you have a word like 'good,' what need is there for a word like 'bad'? 'Ungood' will do just as well--better, because it's an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of 'good,' what sense is there in having a whole string of vague useless words like 'excellent' and 'splendid' and all the rest of them? 'Plusgood' covers the meaning, or 'doubleplusgood' if you want something stronger still...In the end the whole notion of goodness and badness will be covered by only six words--in reality, only one word. Don't you see the beauty of that, Winston?
George OrwellStatistics were just as much a fantasy in their original version as in as in their rectified version
George OrwellPeople simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.
George OrwellI do not think one can assess a writer’s motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.
George OrwellNot to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
George OrwellTags: feelings
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible
George OrwellAll nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.
George OrwellTags: racism
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