Quote by George Orwell
For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important th

For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity. – George Orwell

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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. – George Orwell

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To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. – George Orwell

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Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. – Joan of Arc

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The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. – Anatole France

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Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction. – Lord Byron

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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it. – Mark Twain

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Now, therefore, the Directors of the company are hereby ordered to see that precautions are taken to make travel on said railroad perfectly safe by using a screw with at least twenty-four inches diameter. – Joshua A. Norton

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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. Id go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor. – Al Pacino

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I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously – a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too. – Eugene Chadbourne

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