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"It was nearly eleven hundred, and in the Records Department, where Winston worked, they were dragging the chairs out of the cubicles and grouping them in the centre of the hall opposite the big telescreen, in preparation for the Two Minutes Hate."
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was first published #onthisday in 1949. There has never been a better time to read it for yourself.
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"It would probably not be beyond human ingenuity to write books by machinery. But a sort of mechanizing process can already be seen at work in the film and radio, in publicity and propaganda, and in the lower reaches of journalism."
The Prevention of Literature, January 1946
"It would probably not be beyond human ingenuity to write books by machinery. But a sort of mechanizing process can already be seen at work in the film and radio, in publicity and propaganda, and in the lower reaches of journalism."
The Prevention of Literature, January 1946
"The basic error of this school of thought is its contempt for the common man."
In George Orwell’s essay on James Burnham, we see him beginning to formulate the ideas behind Nineteen Eighty-Four. Read more with Orwell Daily: orwell.substack.com/p/the-ba…
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How do you make the perfect cup of tea? ☕️
Orwell had strong opinions, even during rationing. In 1946, with 2 oz of tea per head a week, he insisted: “One strong cup of tea is better than 20 weak ones.”
Read A Nice Cup of Tea ↓
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"I watched a man hanged once. There was no question that everybody concerned knew this to be a dreadful, unnatural action."
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"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - Notes on Nationalism
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"The best books of any one age have always been written from several different viewpoints, some of them palpably more false than others."
- Politics vs. Literature, October 1946
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Our society is not only so arranged that if you have money you can buy luxuries with it. After all, that is what money is for. It is also so arranged that if you don’t have money you pay for it at every hour of the day with petty humiliations and totally unnecessary discomforts.
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"The greatest mistake is to imagine that the human being is an autonomous individual." George Orwell, 28 April 1944
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We caved (we love Big Brother). George doesn't look too happy about it.
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"So long as democracy exists, even its very imperfect English form, totalitarianism is in deadly danger."
George Orwell's "The Lion and the Unicorn" was first published #OTD in 1941. Read an extract today on our S*bstack serial (link in the thread).
