Orwell's List

Orwell's list, prepared in 1949 by the English author George Orwell, shortly before he died, comprises names of notable writers and other persons he considered to be unsuitable as possible writers for the Information Research Department's anti-communist propaganda activities.

Read more about Orwell's List:  Background, Notebook, Reactions To The IRD List, The List, Names in The Notebook

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    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.
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

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