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
fun earthquakes
An earthquake is such fun when it is over.
fun fall pie
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.
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.
funny dirty naughty
Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
past achievement fundamentals
In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc.
funny devil acting
There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.
funny sarcasm animal
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
funny life talking
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
wisdom time funny-life
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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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
act becomes telling truth universal
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act
deceit speaking truth universal
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.