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"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. It that is granted, all else follows."
Red stamps; Big brother is watching you. Follow.
Bottom right:
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act".
"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. It that is granted, all else follows."
Red stamps; Big brother is watching you. Follow.
Bottom right:
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act".
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