Джордж Оруэлл: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 12)

Attributed to Orwell by Keith Olbermann on MSNBC (27 September 2006), this seems to be a paraphrase of some of the statements in Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Misattributed
Источник: 1984

Источник: 1984

Источник: Animal Farm

Источник: 1984

Источник: 1984

Источник: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 4
Источник: Down and Out in Paris and London
Контексте: For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

Источник: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 30
Источник: Down and Out in Paris and London
Контексте: He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve. Sometimes, he said, when sleeping on the Embankment, it had consoled him to look up at Mars or Jupiter and think that there were probably Embankment sleepers there. He had a curious theory about this. Life on earth, he said, is harsh because the planet is poor in the necessities of existence. Mars, with its cold climate and scanty water, must be far poorer, and life correspondingly harsher. Whereas on earth you are merely imprisoned for stealing sixpence, on Mars you are probably boiled alive. This thought cheered Bozo, I do not know why. He was a very exceptional man.

Источник: 1984

Источник: 1984

Источник: 1984

Вариант: Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.
Источник: 1984

Источник: 1984

Источник: 1984

Источник: Why I Write

Источник: Animal Farm

Источник: Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936), Ch. 5