The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.
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All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.George Orwell
Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
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The existence of good bad literature the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration.
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The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
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