It doesn't really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. I've done it on several occasions.


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GEORGE ORWELL
Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.
GEORGE ORWELL
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
GEORGE ORWELL
Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
GEORGE ORWELL
Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
GEORGE ORWELL
Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.
GEORGE ORWELL
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequentl...
GEORGE ORWELL
The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
GEORGE ORWELL
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
GEORGE ORWELL
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corpora...
GEORGE ORWELL
Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
GEORGE ORWELL
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one...
GEORGE ORWELL
War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses t...
GEORGE ORWELL
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay egg...
GEORGE ORWELL
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