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George Orwell was born Eric Arthur Blair in 1903 in Motihari, India.
* He was educated in England and worked as a police officer in Burma for five years.
* He resigned from the police force in 1927 and became a writer.
* He wrote novels, essays, and journalism, and is best known for his works *Animal Farm* and *1984*.
* *Animal Farm* is an allegorical novella about the dangers of totalitarianism.
* *1984* is a dystopian novel about a totalitarian society.
* Orwell died of tuberculosis in 1950 at the age of 46.
* He is considered one of the most important writers of the 20th century.
* His works are still widely read and studied today.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

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