I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.
George OrwellHow could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.
George OrwellCricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.
George OrwellA man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature
George OrwellI have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.
George Orwell