All GEORGE ORWELL Quotes about “Literature”

“The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”
“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.”
“A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.”
“If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?”
“Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”
“The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.”
“Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.”
“The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.”
“I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.”
“No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.”
“Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.”
“The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.”
“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.”

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