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  1. A quotation from Orwell

    When one reads any strongly individual piece of writing, one has the impression of seeing a face somewhere behind the page […] Well, in the case of Dickens I see a face that is not quite the face of Dickens’s photographs, though it resembles it. It is the face of a man of about forty, with a small beard and a high colour. He is laughing, with a touch of anger in his laughter, but no triumph, no malignity. It is the face of a man who is always fighting against something, but who fights in the open and is not frightened, the face of a man who is generously angry — in other words, of a nineteenth-century liberal, a free intelligence, a type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1939), “Charles Dickens,” sec. 6, Inside the Whale (1940-03-11)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/75631/

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