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All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it.

George Orwell

Race, Racism, People

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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

Atmosphere, Literature, Orthodoxy

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

George Orwell

Technology, Men, Development

George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Sanity is not statistical.

George Orwell

Inspirational, Sanity

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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For the future. For the unborn.

George Orwell

Unborn

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.110, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

George Orwell

Men, President, Doe

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Winston was gelatinous with fatigue.

George Orwell

Fatigue

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.138, Arcturus Publishing

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It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already.

George Orwell

Powerful, Book, Order

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.432, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

George Orwell

Past, Nineteen, 1984 Important

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself

George Orwell

Loyalty, Men, Tears

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.126, Arcturus Publishing

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

George Orwell

Anger, Practice, Society

"The Art of Donald McGill". Critical essay by George Orwell, 1941.

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Napoleon is always right.

George Orwell

Peter Hall, George Orwell (1993). “The Play of George Orwell's Animal Farm”, p.57, Heinemann

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By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

George Orwell

Writing, Style

George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

George Orwell

Defeat, Series

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The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

George Orwell

Average, Income, Suits

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

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For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.

George Orwell

Mean, Discovery, Worry

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.14, Lulu.com

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Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor.

George Orwell

Fear, Ignorance, Prejudice

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No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

George Orwell

Men, Thinking, Doctors

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.

George Orwell

Children, Years, Singing

George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.311, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.

George Orwell

Home, Sweat, Justice

The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) ch. 2

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From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.

George Orwell

Dying, Rebel, Generations

George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.454, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates.

George Orwell

Brother, Couple, Moving

George Orwell (2014). “1984”, p.219, Arcturus Publishing

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Objective considerations of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invaria.

George Orwell

Elements, Consideration, Capacity

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He loved Big Brother.

George Orwell

Brother, Bigs

Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 3, ch. 6 (1949)

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Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.

George Orwell

Fear, Mean, Thinking

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