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The books, essays and letters of author George Orwell.
Montréal, Canada
Joined April 2011
George Orwell in 1984: "The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others.".
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RT @nbissell: I wouldn't bank on it, David, but you never know. How wrong could old T.S Eliot be? #AnimalFarm #GeorgeOrwell #publishing @Or….
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George Orwell: "Beauty is meaningless until it is shared.". Source: Burmese Days (1934).Image: My pic of Bagan, Myanmar in Dec. 2016.
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George Orwell: "You can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it."
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George Orwell: "All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers."
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George Orwell: "If you live for others, you must live for others, and not as a roundabout way of getting an advantage for yourself."
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George Orwell: The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out .
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George Orwell: "Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery."
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"Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.". - George Orwell
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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.". - George Orwell in "Animal Farm".
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ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL,.BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.
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They had thought the Fifth Commandment was "No animal shall drink alcohol," but there were two words that they had forgotten. Actually the Commandment read: "No animal shall drink alcohol TO EXCESS.". - George Orwell in "Animal Farm".
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The Seven Commandments:. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal.
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"Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other animal. All animals are equal.". - George Orwell in "Animal Farm"
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"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play . it is war minus the shooting." . - George Orwell, Tribune (Dec. 1945).
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"He had reached the age when the future ceases to be a rosy blur and becomes actual and menacing.". - George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)
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George Orwell: "England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality."
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"Big Brother is Watching You" (Typed draft page with hand written alterations by Orwell.). - From George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" manuscript.
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The three slogans of the Party:. War is Peace.Freedom is Slavery.Ignorance is Strength. - From George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" manuscript.
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George Orwell: "So far as I can see, all political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.".
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