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Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.
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The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible.
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It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.
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A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
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To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment.
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Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
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All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep.
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I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.
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Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.
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The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.
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All men are enemies. All animals are comrades
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The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
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Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?
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For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.
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Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
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Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.
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