British - Author | June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
George Orwell
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Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
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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.
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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
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A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
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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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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.
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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.
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At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
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