Odysseus 12/8/23 Odysseus 12/8/23 Mark Twain: 'Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.' Read More Odysseus 12/8/23 Odysseus 12/8/23 Mark Twain: 'The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Four legs good, two legs bad.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.' Read More Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
Odysseus 12/8/23 Odysseus 12/8/23 Mark Twain: 'Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.' Read More
Odysseus 12/8/23 Odysseus 12/8/23 Mark Twain: 'The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.' Read More
Odysseus 12/7/23 Odysseus 12/7/23 George Orwell: 'The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.' Read More