Notable Quotes
· GEORGE ORWELL ·
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
There are sounds I can’t describe, sounds that dwindle past the ceiling in my home…somewhere near the telephone wires, perhaps. It feels as if it should be snowing the closer I lean my ear in to determine it, except it doesn’t snow where I live. For a short moment, I think of my first crush–I…
“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers. We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The…
“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
“There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.” –Antonin Artaud My first encounter, if one can call it that, with Antonin Artaud, was with a scene of a…
““Satan represents responsibility to the responsible instead of concern for psychic vampires!”
“I dont crave companionship. It stands in my way. I live for pleasure. There are few persons who can give me as much pleasure as those acts I perform myself. I would rather create pleasure according to my own whim than be subjected to the whims of others.”
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
“Fashion fades, only style remains the same.”
“If you need drugs to be a good writer, you are not a good writer.”