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It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, "Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days" or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, "thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!".

George Orwell

Successful, Eggs, Two

George Orwell (2009). “Animal Farm: A Fairy Story”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

George Orwell

Political Language, Decay, Chaos

George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment.

George Orwell

Party, People, Progressive

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Smothered under journalism, 1946”

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It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

George Orwell

Religious, Art, Book

George Orwell (1998). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation

George Orwell

Guts, Belly, Manchester

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Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it.

George Orwell

Reality, Progress, Literature

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.250, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.

George Orwell

Smart, Book, Men

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.86, Lulu.com

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In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.

George Orwell

Long, London, Towns

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless.

George Orwell

Different, Would Be, Impossible

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

Lying, Home, Fate

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.

George Orwell

Business, Games, Dramatic

1944 Raffles and Miss Blandish.

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Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold.

George Orwell

Window Panes, World, Cold

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

George Orwell

Love You, Men

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.222, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

George Orwell

Memories, Lakes, Sea

George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?

George Orwell

Brother, Sex, Cheer

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.

George Orwell

Ideas, New Day, Teeth

George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

George Orwell

Real, Secret, Should

George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought.

George Orwell

Thinking, Sanity

George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

George Orwell

Love, Romantic, Giving

George Orwell (2016). “1984”, p.190, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

George Orwell

Intellectual, Communism, Enough

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.

George Orwell

Paris, People, Mad

George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.

George Orwell

Mistake, Thinking, Trying

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England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same.

George Orwell

Animal, Past, History

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison (1998). “The Complete Works of George Orwell: A patriot after all, 1940-1941”

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Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

George Orwell

Clarity, Trouble, Imitation

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.

George Orwell

Love, Loyalty, Essence

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.357, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Born: June 25, 1903
Died: January 21, 1950
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