WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/orwell-george/75631/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Orwell</b></a></p><blockquote>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 <i>generously angry</i> — 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.</blockquote><p><b>George Orwell</b> (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]<br>Essay (1939), “Charles Dickens,” sec. 6, <i>Inside the Whale</i> (1940-03-11)</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/orwell-george/75631/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/orwell-george/75631/</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=orwell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>orwell</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=activist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activist</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=cause" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cause</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fighter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fighter</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=goodfight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>goodfight</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberal</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=reformer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reformer</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=statusquo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>statusquo</span></a></p>