For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
Quote by George Orwell
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For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
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George Orwell Quotes
- In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
- War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.
- Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
- Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
- Four legs good, two legs bad.
- Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
- The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
- In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
- There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
- We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
Best Quotes
- No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.
- Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
- Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.
- The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
- I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
- By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.
- We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
- I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.
- Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.
- It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.