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George Orwell

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In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.


— George Orwell


#politics #science-fiction #art

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.


— George Orwell


#political #ruling-class #sociological #sociology

The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.


— George Orwell


#day #false #got #i #idea

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had much temptation to be human beings.


— George Orwell


#humanity #saints #scholars #nature

Life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.


— George Orwell


#life

Sports have nothing to do with fair play. They are bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence


— George Orwell


#humor

If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.


— George Orwell


#censorship #science-fiction #death

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.


— George Orwell


#die #doom #failure #human #death

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.


— George Orwell


#death #health #orwell #age

He was alone with seven thousand books...mostly aged and unsaleable.


— George Orwell


#age






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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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