I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.
George OrwellWriting a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
George OrwellThe point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.
George Orwell