“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”
More from George Orwell
“All the animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.”
“If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave…”
“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding…”