When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing. - George Orwell

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Dogs never bite me. Just humans.― Marilyn Monroe

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If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. ― George Orwell

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Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. ― George Orwell

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All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.― Charles M. Schulz

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Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. ― Booker T. Washington

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Happiness is a warm puppy.― Charles M. Schulz

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Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. ― George Orwell

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All men are free and equal, in the grave. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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