Orwell quotes

An episode out of George Orwell rewritten by Charles Dickens.

- (Alfred) Alistair Cooke
  Of Gerald R Ford's succession to the US presidency on Richard M Nixon's resignation. The Americans.

Our semantic chickens have come home to roost† We have cometo accept all sorts of semantic inversions, just as George Orwell told us we would.

- David Alan Mamet
  Writing in Restaurants,'Semantic Chickens'.