"A man may take to drink because..." - Quote by George Orwell

“For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live.”

“Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.”

“Whoever controls the image and information of the past determines what and how future generations will think; whoever controls the information and images of the present determines how those same people will view the past." "He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.”

“The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.”

“Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.”

“Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.”

“Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me.”

“I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don't mind admitting any of them.”

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”