Quote by George Orwell
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. - George Orwell

Myths which are believed in tend to become true. – George Orwell

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Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. – George Orwell

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The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history. – George Orwell

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Myths, Mythology
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There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. – Eugene Ionesco

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence. – Wallace Stevens

One may as well preach a respectable mythology as anything else. – Mrs. Humphrey Ward

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. – Salman Rushdie

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