“ The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal. George Orwell
“ I fear no hell, just as I expect no heaven. Nabokov summed up a nonbeliever’s view of the cosmos, and our place in it, thus: “The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existe… Jeffrey Tayler
“ His importance to the century just past, and therefore his status as a figure in history as well as in literature, derives from the extraordinary salience of the subjects he ‘took on,’ and stayed with… Christopher Hitchens
“ If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters. George Orwell
“ Aesthetic enthusiasm. Perception of beauty in the external world, or, on the other hand, in words and their right arrangement. Pleasure in the impact of one sound on another, in the firmness of good p… George Orwell
“ In his entire output, I can find only one piece of genuine unfairness: a thuggish attack on the poetry of WH Auden, whom he regarded as a dupe of the Communist Party. But even this was softened in som… Christopher Hitchens
“ Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?O'Brien: Of course he exists.Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?O'Brien: You do not exist. George Orwell
“ And remember also that in fighting against man we must not come to resemble him. Even when you have conquered him, do not adopt his vices. George Orwell
“ If you want a vision of the future, imagine someone watching a boot stamping on a human face - forever...and ‘liking’ it. Dean Cavanagh
“ In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were paras… George Orwell
“ Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry. George Orwell
“ Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. George Orwell
“ All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. George Orwell
