George Orwell (Eric Blair)
“From an early age…I knew when I grew up I should be a
writer. Between the ages of about
seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the
consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I
should have to settle down and write books.”
- George Orwell
“So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” ― George Orwell, 1984 Could this be an apt description of the lives of many today?
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