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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f ...

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser t ...

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exha ...

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the futu ...

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man ...

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we be ...

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving yo ...

Writing a novel is agony.