Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.