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I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!
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The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.
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I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press.
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I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production.
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No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.
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The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men
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We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it.
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Born:
June 25, 1903
Died:
January 21, 1950
(aged 46)
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Eric Arthur Blair, who used the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.
Known for:
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
Burmese Days (1934)
Homage to Catalonia (1938)
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
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