Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
George OrwellThe common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
George OrwellEvery line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it.
George OrwellWho controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell