"All over the world today, not just in the totalitarian countries, assiduous functionaries in Ministries of Truth are clubbing history dumb and rendering language insensible."

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Source : E.L. Doctorow (2011). “Jack London, Hemingway, and the Constitution:: Selected Essays, 1977-1992”, p.71, Random House

E. L. Doctorow

#Country Quotes #Dumb Quotes #Ministry Quotes

“My secret to success is that I've always loved good music and people.”
“Transformation means nothing of the old should remain; something absolutely new should happen.”
“Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.”
“Humility was an important part of the way I grew up. And I found that to be less common when I moved to California. That's not to say humble people don't exist there, but ambition seems really important.”

Source : "Anna Kendrick: 'It's all about that fatal flaw'" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2012.
“I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I wake up every day and think about what I am to other people. What I am to the people I employ, who depend on me to wake up and do my job that day and keep this career going? I think about what I am to the kids who listen to my music and all the other people involved in this project.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I still held fast to my determination to become a minister; it still seemed to me that that was my duty. I had pledged myself, in my prayers I had given my word to God. How could I therefore break my vow?”
“I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.”

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