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George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes.
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Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.
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There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.
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I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.
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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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Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.
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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.
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Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.
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By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
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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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I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists.
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Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.
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The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same.
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A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
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I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.
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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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Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?
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