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George Orwell

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The main motive for "nonattachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.


— George Orwell


#love

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


— George Orwell


#time

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.


— George Orwell


#inspirational

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.


— George Orwell


#ignorance #inspirational #war #freedom

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.


— George Orwell


#love

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.


— George Orwell


#more #others #some #than

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.


— George Orwell


#dystopia #first-sentence #opening-lines #day

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.


— George Orwell


#design

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.


— George Orwell


#propaganda #rewriting-history #understanding

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.


— George Orwell


#best #books #know #tell #those






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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