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"Most of the time he violently disagrees with the people beside whom he is fighting."
George Orwell in Vogue
Sep 15
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The Orwell Foundation
47
6
"This attitude is defended, if at all, solely on grounds of power."
George Orwell on the Warsaw Uprising
Sep 1
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The Orwell Foundation
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George Orwell
60
5
August 2025
"Last night just as we were going to bed, a pretty heavy explosion."
War-time diary, 31 August 1940
Aug 31
•
George Orwell
30
"Clip only one wing, preferably the right."
Domestic diary, 22 August 1938
Aug 22
•
George Orwell
22
2
"If giving the land of England back to the people of England is theft, I am quite happy to call it theft."
George Orwell and his readers
Aug 18
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The Orwell Foundation
and
George Orwell
182
1
"I would certainly like to review for the New Yorker occasionally if they want me to..."
6 August 1946, Typewritten
Aug 6
•
George Orwell
25
July 2025
“Don’t you feel quite differently towards the Russians now they are in a jam?”
Orwell's diary, 28th July 1942
Jul 28
•
George Orwell
37
7
"I am doing nothing that is not futility and have less and less to show for the time I waste."
Orwell's diary, 23rd July 1942
Jul 23
•
George Orwell
40
"The millionaire as well as the beggar is content with just so much air as he can breathe."
First published 21 July 1944
Jul 21
•
George Orwell
43
7
"Would you be interested to hear more...?"
18 July 1942
Jul 18
•
George Orwell
39
9
"Zoom-zoom-ZOOM!"
First published 7 July 1944
Jul 7
•
George Orwell
38
5
June 2025
"Many standard works are now completely out of print..."
First published 30 June 1944
Jun 30
•
George Orwell
63
3
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