At 16, I walked around knowing I'd get chased and attacked for dressing a certain way - I felt I had an undeniable right to be who I wanted to be. My father said to hit them back, but I was never much good at that. So I developed a big mouth instead of a quick right hook.


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Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an...
GEORGE ORWELL
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...
GEORGE SAND
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your prepa...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
GEORGE ORWELL
One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume...
GEORGE ORWELL
The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of huma...
GEORGE ORWELL
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
GEORGE ORWELL
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire t...
GEORGE ORWELL
War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.
GEORGE ORWELL
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
GEORGE ORWELL
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality...
GEORGE ORWELL
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
GEORGE ORWELL
At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
GEORGE ORWELL