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

— George Orwell

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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. ↗

— George Orwell

#indefensible #largely #our #our time #political

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. ↗

— George Orwell

#destruction #essential #human #human lives #labor

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

— George Orwell

#intelligent #make #masses #materials #might

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant. ↗

— George Orwell

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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane. ↗

— George Orwell

#constantly #good #good prose #like #nothing

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. ↗

— George Orwell

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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. ↗

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

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There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people. ↗

— Adam Osborne

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