"The very concept of objective truth is..." - Quote by George Orwell

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”

“She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing.”

“On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran.”

“Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.”

“Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned”

“Ignorance lies not in the things you don't know, but in the things you know that ain't so.”

“Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.”

“Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.”

“I never regret anything... I just lie about it or change the story.”