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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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[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It is humbug to pretend this is not a motive and a strong one.
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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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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!
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We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.
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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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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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A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him.
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