I'm fascinated by failure, and I'm fascinated by finality. Shakespeare's historical plays are more universal than his comedies because they relate to the finality of life. Without finality, life would not be beautiful.


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Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defen...
GEORGE ORWELL
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments ...
GEORGE ORWELL
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of...
GEORGE ORWELL
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of al...
GEORGE ORWELL
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
GEORGE ORWELL
I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.
GEORGE ORWELL
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one si...
GEORGE ORWELL
Big Brother is watching you.
GEORGE ORWELL
But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
GEORGE ORWELL
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
GEORGE ORWELL
I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL
Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL
I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
GEORGE LUCAS
I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL
Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
GEORGE GOBEL
When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do ...
GEORGE ORWELL
I admit, too, that I felt a kind of horror as I looked at the people I was marching among. You canno...
GEORGE ORWELL
Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL
The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
GEORGE ORWELL
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over y...
GEORGE ORWELL