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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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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
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Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.
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The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
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Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.
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If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.
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It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve.
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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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The object of powder is powder.
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The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
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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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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
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. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.
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All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.
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I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY
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All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.
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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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All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.
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Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.
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Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.
George Orwell
