"As soon as you think of fishing..." - Quote by George Orwell

“To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.”

“It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.”

“Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.”

“When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.”

“As one of my older friends says, "Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be." Let's take a stab at it, anyway.”

“The dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once, so good to be remembered when outgrown.”

“History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”

“So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?”

“Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past? The sun shines today also.”