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George Orwell

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She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston.


— George Orwell


#beauty #fat #inspirational #style #beauty

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.


— George Orwell


#conformity #control #profanity #sexuality #conformity

It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand.


— George Orwell


#love

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.


— George Orwell


#england #nobility #orwell #royalty #uk

When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys


— George Orwell


#inspirational #philosophical #freedom

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.


— George Orwell


#life #death

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial


— George Orwell


#humor

The more men you've had, the more I love you.


— George Orwell


#love

Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution


— George Orwell


#age

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.


— George Orwell


#mystical #truth #words #mysticism






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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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