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" At fifty everyone has the face he deserves. "

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" So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. "

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" The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature. "

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" A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase. "

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" Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end. "

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" Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. "

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" We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. "

" War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent. "

" It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. "

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" I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. "