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Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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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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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
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A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
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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.
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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
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We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
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Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
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Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
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