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"For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him."
Author:
George Orwell
Category:
Acceptance
"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
Author:
George Orwell
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Candor
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
Author:
George Orwell
Category:
Contradiction
"Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers."
Author:
George Orwell
Category:
Language
"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."
Author:
George Orwell
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Literature
"No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy."
Author:
George Orwell
Category:
School
"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."
Author:
George Orwell
Category:
Sports
"Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
Author:
George Orwell
Category:
Technology
"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
Author:
George Orwell
Category:
Writers and Writing
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