There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter. - George Orwell

Actually there is little acute hatred of Germany left in this country, and even less, I should expect to find, in the army of occupation. Only the minority of sadists, who must have their "atrocities" from one source or another, take a keen interest in the hunting-down of war criminals and quislings.

If Dickens were alive to-day he would make a trip to Soviet Russia and come back with a book rather like Gide's Retour de L'URSS.

ففي زمن من الأزمان كان من الجنون أن تعتقد أن الأرض تدور حول الشمس ،أما اليوم فالجنون هو أن تعتقد أن الماضي غير قابل للتبديل.