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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

Topics: Above Always Atmosphere Damaging Forms Literature Most Novel Orthodoxy Prose

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Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

~George Orwell

Topics: Else Follows Four Freedom Granted Make Plus Say Two

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For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

~George Orwell

Topics: Creative Emotional Important Less Possession Sincerity Than Truth Truth Is Writer

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Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

~George Orwell

Topics: Always Guilty Innocent Judged Proved Saints Should Until

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War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

~George Orwell

Topics: Evil Lesser Often War

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A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

~George Orwell

Topics: Dirty Joke Mental Rebellion Sort

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It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

~George Orwell

Topics: Also Constantly Good Like Nothing Own Personality Prose Struggles True Unless Write

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War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

~George Orwell

Topics: Being Dead Good Good Human Human Human Being Only War

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

~George Orwell

Topics: Dirty Fight Necessary Often Survive To Survive You Yourself

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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?

~George Orwell

Topics: Against Argument Fair Gives Hearing His Intelligent Lunacy Lunatic More Persists Simply Than Then Who You Your Yourself

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Author

Born: June 25th, 1903

Died: January 21st, 1950

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