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
- If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
- Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.
- The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
- Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
- The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
- War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
- 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.
- Liberal: a power worshipper without power.
- Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
- To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
Best Quotes
- Love is the greatest refreshment in life.
- If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling.
- Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.
- If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
- Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
- In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
- Not much shocked me. You know, I worked in a home for Alzheimer's patients and my dad used to be really into murders and stuff, so I saw dead bodies. It desensitised me to a lot of things.
- True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
- Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
- Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong.