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In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.
George Orwell
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George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
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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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As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings.
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The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.
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I do not wish to comment on the work if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
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When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on.
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If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.
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Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere.
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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
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Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
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People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
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I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.
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It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.
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And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.
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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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We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.
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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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The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes.
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I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY
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The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.
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