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George Orwell

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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.


— George Orwell


#carried #classical #corporal #doubt #education

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.


— George Orwell


#constantly #good #good prose #like #nothing

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.


— George Orwell


#joint #language #manual #ought #poets

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.


— George Orwell


#allows #development #good #only #technical

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.


— George Orwell


#back #his #look #say #truth

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.


— George Orwell


#best #child #eyes #faces #few

Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.


— George Orwell


#battles #been #lost #opening #probably

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.


— George Orwell


#happens #illusion #invariably #progress #slow

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.


— George Orwell


#custard pie #dirty #every #funny #joke






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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