“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes i...” — George Orwell Quote

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

Good writing is like a windowpane.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

A hatred of failure has always been part of my nature.

Yes, it's true that the way I play is very heavy and I understand the hatred that people who do not know me can have me to me.

The children of Israel will not grow up in a state where some of its leaders sanctify hatred. I won't let hate win.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

We have not learned the lessons of 9/11. This wrongful suspicion, racial hatred, and profiling is what I keep seeing.