Writing is a very lonely business and when you come to a book fair and you sit at a table and people come up to you with books that they've had in their library for many years and they think it's been somewhat enhanced by a signature, it's always a pleasure.


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I intend to live life, not just exist.
GEORGE TAKEI
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
GEORGE ORWELL
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
GEORGE ORWELL
Good writing is like a windowpane.
GEORGE ORWELL
For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
GEORGE ORWELL
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
GEORGE ORWELL
A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing ...
GEORGE ORWELL
One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in ...
GEORGE ORWELL
To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than othe...
GEORGE ORWELL
War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit f...
GEORGE ORWELL
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are ...
GEORGE ORWELL
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
GEORGE ORWELL
I've been to L.A. before, and I love the sunshine and the fact that people seem so genuinely nic...
HELEN GEORGE
Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.
GEORGE LUCAS
I had very little fear about it, but basically, my straight friends talked me out of it. I think the...
GEORGE MICHAEL
Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?
GEORGE GOBEL
When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do ...
GEORGE ORWELL
I admit, too, that I felt a kind of horror as I looked at the people I was marching among. You canno...
GEORGE ORWELL
Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
GEORGE ORWELL
The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes
GEORGE ORWELL
It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over y...
GEORGE ORWELL
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. Y...
GEORGE ORWELL
Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL
Cutting budget deficits can never be just an exercise in economics.
GEORGE OSBORNE
You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends....
GEORGE STRAIT
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality...
GEORGE SOROS
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; bu...
GEORGE COMBE
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
GEORGE BURNS
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be remind...
GEORGE GISSING
It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great Americ...
GEORGE TAKEI
We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of ...
GEORGE FOREMAN
People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.
GEORGE FOREMAN
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65...
GEORGE FOREMAN
Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt ...
GEORGE FOREMAN
We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started th...
GEORGE FOREMAN
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsi...
GEORGE GROSZ
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with,...
GEORGE GROSZ
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these t...
GEORGE CATLIN
The Word

Wonder or dream from distant land
I carried to my country's strand
STEFAN GEORGE
The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing some...
GEORGE LUCAS
I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly ...
GEORGE GREY