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
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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- forever.
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But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
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The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.
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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash.
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Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
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After 40, a man is responsible for his face.
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At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
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In the face of pain there are no heroes.
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He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
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(Doublethink) to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed
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During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
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Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.
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Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.
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This kind of thing is not a good symptom.