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
cutting years common-humanity
The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.
writing talking mind
Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
1984-important neurologists abolish
We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.
foals motherly stout
Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
love-you men
The more men you've had, the more I love you.
men brain
It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.
done fool
I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool.
cliffs young solve
She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.
stupidity difficult
Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain.
fear struggle class
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
cry moments hundred
And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?
people behaviour poverty
Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work.
thinking space identity
I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously.
unborn
For the future. For the unborn.