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Confucius Quote : "To put the world right..." Raymond Williams Quotes - BrainyQuote. Excerpts from the book What Orwell Didn't Know Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics Edited by Andras Szanto. Excerpts from the book Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics Edited by Andras Szanto PublicAffairs, 2007, paperback pxvii Orville Schell about George Orwell and his essay "Politics and the English Language" George Orwell examined how, by controlling language and discourse, and through the relentless repetition of half-truths and lies, official propaganda could sway and control the thinking of ordinary people. pxviii Orville Schell about George Orwell and his essay "Politics and the English Language" A man may take a drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

excerpts from the book What Orwell Didn't Know Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics Edited by Andras Szanto

Pxxi Paul Mazur, the partner of Edward Bernays, the father of public relations and propaganda We must shape a new mentality. Pxxx George Orwell in "Why I Write" Quotatio. Behind Every Great Fortune There Is a Crime. Honoré de Balzac?

Behind Every Great Fortune There Is a Crime

Mario Puzo? Pierre Mille? Frank P. Walsh? Samuel Merwin? Dear Quote Investigator: The popular 1969 novel “The Godfather” by Mario Puzo recounted the violent tale of a Mafia family, and the epigraph selected by the author was fascinating: Behind every great fortune there is a crime. While searching I found a few different versions of this saying. Behind every great fortune lies a great crime Every great fortune begins with a crime At the root of every great fortune there was a crime.

Should Balzac really be credited with this saying? Quote Investigator: QI believes that this adage was inspired by a sentence that was written by Honoré de Balzac, but the expression has been simplified in an evolutionary process. Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait. Balzac published a series of interlinked novels called “La Comédie Humaine” or “The Human Comedy”, and “Le Père Goriot” was part of this series.

Susan Sontag on Art: Illustrated Diary Excerpts. Dedicated to tracing quotations. Microsoft Word - Extracts.docx - Extracts-1.pdf. Microsoft Word - Extracts.docx - Extracts-1.pdf. Leo Tolstoy. The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Leo Tolstoy

Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy [Ле́в Никола́евич Толсто́й] (9 September 1828 – 20 November 1910) was a Russian writer, philosopher and social activist credited as a major influence on Christian anarchism; his name is usually rendered into English as Leo Tolstoy, and sometimes Tolstoi. See also: A Calendar of Wisdom Quotes[edit] The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

God is that infiniteAll of which man knows himself to be a finite part. The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.Sevastopol in May (1855), Ch. 16Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

Family Happiness (1859)[edit] Bitesize Proust. Random House, Pleiade edition, p.967: "It is as though each of them was in turn a little statuette of gaiety, of childish earnestness, of cajolery, of surprise, shaped by an expression frank and complete, but fugitive.

Bitesize Proust

This plasticity gives a wealth of variety and charm to the pretty attentions which a young girl pays to us. Of course, such attentions are indispensable in the mature woman also, and one who is not attracted to us, or who does not show that she is attracted to us, tends to assume in our eyes a somewhat tedious uniformity. “Certainly the attentions that a woman pays us can still, so long as we are in love with her, endue with fresh charms the hours that we spend in her company, But she is not then for us a series of different women. Famous Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers. By Maria Popova By popular demand, I’ve put together a periodically updated reading list of all the famous advice on writing presented here over the years, featuring words of wisdom from such masters of the craft as Kurt Vonnegut, Susan Sontag, Henry Miller, Stephen King, F.

Famous Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great Writers

Scott Fitzgerald, Susan Orlean, Ernest Hemingway, Zadie Smith, and more. Please enjoy. Jennifer Egan on Writing, the Trap of Approval, and the Most Important Discipline for Aspiring Writers “You can only write regularly if you’re willing to write badly… Accept bad writing as a way of priming the pump, a warm-up exercise that allows you to write well.” I. F. Stone. Isador Feinstein Stone (December 24, 1907 – June 18, 1989), better known as I.

I. F. Stone

F. Stone, was an iconoclastic American investigative journalist best known for his influential political newsletter, I.F. Stone's Weekly. Sourced[edit] There must be renewed recognition that societies are kept stable and healthy by reform, not by thought police; this means there must be free play for so-called subversive ideas - every idea subverts the old to make way for the new. External links[edit]