It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.
George OrwellFor a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
George OrwellPolitically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.
George OrwellThe books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent.
George Orwell