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George Orwell

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War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.


— George Orwell


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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.


— George Orwell


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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.


— George Orwell


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Myths which are believed in tend to become true.


— George Orwell


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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.


— George Orwell


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Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.


— George Orwell


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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.


— George Orwell


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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.


— George Orwell


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War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.


— George Orwell


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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.


— George Orwell


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About George Orwell

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Did you know about George Orwell?

The Thought Police are those who suppress all dissenting opinion. He also often stayed at the homes of Ruth Pitter and Richard Rees where he could "change" for his sporadic tramping expeditions. He received electrotherapy treatment and was declared medically unfit for service.

In 2008 The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Considered perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture Orwell wrote literary criticism poetry fiction and polemical journalism. Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture and the term Orwellian — descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices — has entered the language together with several of his neologisms including Cold War doublethink thoughtcrime Big Brother and thought police.

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