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June 25, 2020

Name: George Orwell
Born: 06/25/1903
Died: 01/21/1950 (46 years old)
Occupation: Novelist and essayist, journalist and literary critic

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, biting social criticism, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

Birth Name: Eric Arthur Blair

School: Eton College

Alias: George Orwell

Genre: Dystopia, roman à clef, satire

Birth Place: Motihari, Bihar, British India, (present-day East Champaran, Bihar, India)

Death Place: University College Hospital, London, England, United Kingdom

Source: Wikipedia

George Orwell quotes :

Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
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In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
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Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
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Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.
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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.
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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.
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It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
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Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
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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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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
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All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.
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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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Four legs good, two legs bad.
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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.
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Good writing is like a windowpane.
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War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
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The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
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