Quotes by Orwell, George

He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose >>

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be. >>

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who a >>

Quotations about Books - Reading

Some books leave us free and some books make us free. >>

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a nove >>

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for grante >>

The 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.

Orwell, George