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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

George Orwell

Sanity, Submission

George Orwell (2012). “1984”, p.89, Oberon Books

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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.

George Orwell

Birthday, Trust, Eight

George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

George Orwell

Flames, People, Desire

George Orwell (1961). “1984”

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Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness.

George Orwell

Sweat, Sound, Pay

George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.57, Lulu.com

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I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

George Orwell

Education, Punishment, Doubt

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Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

George Orwell

Cogs, Machines, Capitalist

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich.

George Orwell

Mistake, Hands, People

George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals.

George Orwell

Community, Nonsense, Individual

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

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Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

George Orwell

Imperialism, Kipling

"All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays".

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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.

George Orwell

Saint, Tests, Guilty

George Orwell, Ian Angus, Sheila Davison “The Complete Works of George Orwell: Our job is to make life worth living, 1949-1950”

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