"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."

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"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."

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"The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped."

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"It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality."

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"It is hope--with regard to our careers, our love lives, our children, our politicians, and our planet--that is primarily to blame for angering and embittering us. The incompatibility between the grandeur of our aspirations and the mean reality of our condition generates the violent disappointments which rack our days and etch themselves in lines of acrimony across our faces."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory."

John Green, American Author

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"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"I don't know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist.Why do we need more evidence?They exist here on this very Earth.Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani'sdulcet words all around you.And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children's cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice,their families, and their limbs.Yes, hell certainly does existright now, at this moment,as I pen this poem. And all we're doingto extinguish this hellfireis sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.Tell me: what exactly does that makeus? Are we any better than the gatekeepers of hell?"

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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"Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations."

Alan Moore, British Writer

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"Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect."

Dejan Stojanovic, Serbian Philosopher

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"It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Sometimes in the quest for enlightenment the only thing that gets lighter is your wallet."

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"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."

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"Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days."

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"I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language."

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"Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates."

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"Not all the Americans in Iraq are those who torture and murder, or course they're not, I don't know how many are doing it, I know it is systematic throughout the United States military I think that's been revealed."

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"It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people."

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"Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war."

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"We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government."

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