I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.
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Zum Autor"Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked."
"He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him), and took a sort of pleasure in thinking that human affairs would never improve."
"If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise."
"Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly."
"International sport is war without shooting."
"Nothing exists except through human consciousness."