"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

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About George Orwell

George Orwell was an English novelist, essayist, and critic known for Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. His writing examined power, propaganda, poverty, and political language. He remains one of the most influential political writers of the 20th century.

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