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George Orwell


British
June 25, 1903
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At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.


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A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.


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One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.


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When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.


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Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.


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Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.


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Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.


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Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.


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


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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.


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All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
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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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The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.


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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
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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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Tags: Family Come Wrong
Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
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War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.
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Tags: War Make Way
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
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Tags: About Them Only
What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?
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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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Tags: Fear Were Every