George Orwell

Novelist

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Quiet, reflective, and idealistic. Interested in serving humanity. Well-developed value system, which they strive to live in accordance with. Extremely loyal. Adaptable and laid-back unless a strongly-held value is threatened. Usually talented writers. Mentally quick, and able to see possibilities. Interested in understanding and helping people.

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Biography

Eric Arthur Blair, better known by the pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism.

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Quotes by George Orwell

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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?

Society has always to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.