For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.

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For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.

-- George Orwell

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He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve.

-- George Orwell

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Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going wel

-- George Orwell

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He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

-- George Orwell

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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

-- George Orwell

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