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George Orwell

Coming Up for Air

  • bookishahas quoted5 years ago
    world we’re going down into, the kind of hate-world, sloganworld. The coloured shirts, the barbed wire, the rubber truncheons. The secret cells where the electric light burns night and day, and the detectives watching you while you sleep.
  • bookishahas quoted5 years ago
    feeling that you’ve got to be everlastingly fighting and hustling, that you’ll never get anything unless you grab it from somebody else, that there’s always somebody after your job, the next month or the month after they’ll be reducing staff and it’s you that’ll get the bird—THAT, I swear, didn’t exist in the old life before the war.
  • bookishahas quoted5 years ago
    There’s time for everything except the things worth doing.
  • bookishahas quoted5 years ago
    Sometimes when you come out of a train of thought you feel as if you were coming up from deep water, but this time it was the other way about, it was as though it was back in 1900 that I’d been breathing real air.
  • bookishahas quoted5 years ago
    Houses going up into the air, bloomers soaked with blood, canary singing on above the corpses.
  • bookishahas quoted5 years ago
    Do you notice how often they have under-sized men for these bullying jobs?
  • sphota9has quoted6 years ago
    I went downstairs in a bad temper and ready to make myself disagreeable
  • b7017128164has quoted7 years ago
    Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.
  • b7017128164has quoted7 years ago
    e. But it's one of the advantages of being fat that you can fit into almost any society
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