Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

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• George Orwell:

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• George Orwell:

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  Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort o

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  Four legs good, two legs bad.

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• George Orwell:

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

• George Orwell:

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• George Orwell:

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• George Orwell:

  The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

• George Orwell:

  As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.