In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any other writer, is "good". Nor is there any way of definitely proving that--for instance--Warwick Beeping is "bad". Ultimately there is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.
George OrwellTags: shakespeare literature opinion taste merit
He was safe, everything was all right. He fell asleep murmuring "Sanity is not statistical," with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom.
George OrwellThey would have blown his brain to pieces before they could reclaim it. The heretical thought would be unpunished, unrepented, out of their reach for ever. They would have blown a hole in their own perfection. To die hating them, that was freedom.
George OrwellBeyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost its sharpness. You remembered huge events which had quite probably not happened, you remembered the details of incidents without being able to recapture their atmosphere, and there were long blank periods to which you could assign nothing. Everything had been different then.
George OrwellTags: life belief change different memory
For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.
George OrwellNo emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.
George OrwellTags: true
She knew when to cheer and when to boo, and that was all one needed
George OrwellLife's here to be lived, and if we're going to be in the soup next week - well, next week is a long way off.
George Orwellوخطر له أنه من الغريب ألا يعرف لون عيني الفتاة بعد.
George Orwellلو كنت تشعر باشمئزاز من مذاق الطعام الرديء والجوارب الملتصقة والثياب القذرة, فلا بد أنك تملك فكرة عما هو جيد... لا بد أنك تذكر وقتاً ما كانت الأمور مختلفة.
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