So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly a…

George Orwell
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So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. ✨ George Orwell (1970). A Collection of Essays, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. ✨ George Orwell (1970). A Collection of Essays, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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