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George Orwell

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A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.


— George Orwell


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Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.


— George Orwell


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For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.


— George Orwell


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At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.


— George Orwell


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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.


— George Orwell


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Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.


— George Orwell


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The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.


— George Orwell


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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.


— George Orwell


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Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.


— George Orwell


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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.


— George Orwell


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Did you know about George Orwell?

The Thought Police are those who suppress all dissenting opinion. He also often stayed at the homes of Ruth Pitter and Richard Rees where he could "change" for his sporadic tramping expeditions. He received electrotherapy treatment and was declared medically unfit for service.

In 2008 The Times ranked him second on a list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Considered perhaps the 20th century's best chronicler of English culture Orwell wrote literary criticism poetry fiction and polemical journalism. Orwell's work continues to influence popular and political culture and the term Orwellian — descriptive of totalitarian or authoritarian social practices — has entered the language together with several of his neologisms including Cold War doublethink thoughtcrime Big Brother and thought police.

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