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At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

~George Orwell

Topics: Deserves Everyone Face Fifty He

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Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

~George Orwell

Topics: Also Joyce Poet

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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

~George Orwell

Topics: About Actual Cities Civilization Continuity Doubt Feel Germany Ruined Through Walk

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No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

~George Orwell

Topics: Advance Brought Equality Ever Human Manners Nearer Reform Revolution Wealth

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The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

~George Orwell

Topics: Alike Assuming Both Cannot Catholic Communist Honest Intelligent Opponent

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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

~George Orwell

Topics: Always Difference Hardly Less Makes More More Or Less Nearly No Difference Other Progress Reaction Side Stands Such A Thing Thing War Which Who Wins

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To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others.

~George Orwell

Topics: Being Does Human Human Being Love Loving Mean Means More Nothing Ordinary Others People Some Some People Than

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

~George Orwell

Topics: Creation Joint Language Manual Ought Poets Workers

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Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

~George Orwell

Topics: Authors Dickens Stealing Those Well Who Worth

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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.

~George Orwell

Topics: Come Control Describing England Family Members Near Perhaps Phrase Wrong

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1903

Died: January 21st, 1950

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