"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary."

-- George Orwell

#Party Quotes #Past Quotes #Expression Quotes

“Some things transcend politics and policy and the lust for power. Truth, honesty, integrity, decency and fairness are immutable values. They are the ethical substance of life. They ought to be cherished. To sell them out is to sell one's soul.”
“Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel that tall they make you feel that tall, that they're greatness as it were improves you.”
“The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.”

Source : 'The First Pastoral' (1708) 'Lobbin' l. 47
“There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.”
“We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.”

Source : Jeffery Deaver (1997). “The Bone Collector”, Viking Press
“It's a gift. Never lend a book.”
“To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.”
“Making the complicated simple is true creativity.”

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