George Orwell
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair, 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...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 June 1903
CityMotihari, India
Why was it that they could never shout like that about something that mattered?
book past reality
The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.
guts belly manchester
Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation
real practice world
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.
atmosphere literature orthodoxy
The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.
fun world-suffering people
Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
humility fools-day aggravation
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
eye two trying
You are a slow learner, Winston." "How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane.
stupidity instinct cowardice
What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.
men weight-loss literature
I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man.
anger practice society
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
ideas new-day teeth
The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
fear war atheism
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
leadership courage empowering-others
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.