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"This attitude is defended, if at all, solely on grounds of power."
George Orwell on the Warsaw Uprising
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"This attitude is defended, if at all, solely on grounds of power."
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"Last night just as we were going to bed, a pretty heavy explosion."
War-time diary, 31 August 1940
Aug 31
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George Orwell
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"Last night just as we were going to bed, a pretty heavy explosion."
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"Clip only one wing, preferably the right."
Domestic diary, 22 August 1938
Aug 22
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George Orwell
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"Clip only one wing, preferably the right."
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"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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"If giving the land of England back to the people of England is theft, I am quite happy to call it theft."
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"I would certainly like to review for the New Yorker occasionally if they want me to..."
6 August 1946, Typewritten
Aug 6
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George Orwell
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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
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“Don’t you feel quite differently towards the Russians now they are in a jam?”
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"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
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"I am doing nothing that is not futility and have less and less to show for the time I waste."
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"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
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"The millionaire as well as the beggar is content with just so much air as he can breathe."
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"Would you be interested to hear more...?"
18 July 1942
Jul 18
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George Orwell
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"Zoom-zoom-ZOOM!"
First published 7 July 1944
Jul 7
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"Many standard works are now completely out of print..."
First published 30 June 1944
Jun 30
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"My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."
An extract from Why I Write, first published Summer 1946
Jun 17
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"My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."
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