More from George Orwell

  1. One cannot really be Catholic & grown-up.
  2. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up tr…
  3. It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a …
  4. For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complicatio…
  5. I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanatic…
  6. Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as thou…
  7. No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
  8. There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

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