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" Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever. "

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" The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun. "

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" People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. "

" We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. "

" Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. "

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

" Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "

" To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself. "

" I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt. "

" When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. "

" All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. "

" A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. "

" 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. "

" For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity. "

" On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. "

" The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time. "

" Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. "

" Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. "

" Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. "

" Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. "

" Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. "

" Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. "

" I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man. "

" A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him. "

" War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. "

" War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil. "

" Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. "

" There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them. "

" Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. "

" But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. "

" We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. "