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Official home of The Orwell Foundation, which uses the work of George Orwell to celebrate honest writing and reporting, uncover hidden lives and confront uncomfortable truths. The foundation awards the prestigious Orwell Prize for political writing.

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Why I Write (1946)

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"What I have most wanted to do throughout the past ten years is to make political writing into an art. My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice."

Politics and the English Language (1946)

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"Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."