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George Orwell

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Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.


— George Orwell


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Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.


— George Orwell


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The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.


— George Orwell


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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.


— George Orwell


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To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself.


— George Orwell


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Good writing is like a windowpane.


— George Orwell


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I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.


— George Orwell


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In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.


— George Orwell


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One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.


— George Orwell


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The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.


— 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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