George Orwell: Frasi in inglese (pagina 10)
George Orwell era scrittore britannico. Frasi in inglese.
Origine: Down and out in Paris and London (1933), Ch. 33
Origine: Down and Out in Paris and London
“All men are enemies. All animals are comrades”
Origine: Animal Farm
“If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.”
Origine: All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays
Origine: Politics and the English Language (1946)
“Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.”
Origine: Animal Farm
According to Reuters Fact Check team there is no evidence of the quotation in collections of Orwell’s works. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-orwell-quote-corrupt-idUSKCN2AT2W5
“The distinguishing mark of man is the, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.”
Origine: Animal Farm
Origine: "Why I Write" http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/write.html, Gangrel (Summer 1946)
Contesto: Anyone who cares to examine my work will see that even when it is downright propaganda it contains much that a full-time politician would consider irrelevant. I am not able, and do not want, completely to abandon the world view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the Earth, and to take pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. It is no use trying to suppress that side of myself. The job is to reconcile my ingrained likes and dislikes with the essentially public, non-individual activities that this age forces on all of us.
It is not easy. It raises problems of construction and of language, and it raises in a new way the problem of truthfulness.