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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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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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
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Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
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But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
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The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
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I have no wish to take life, not even human life
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Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.
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We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.
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One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.