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When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989 my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
Quotes By George Orwell
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The essential act of war is destruction not necessarily of human lives but...
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Oceania was at war with Eurasia therefore Oceania had always been at war with...
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War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be...
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There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who...
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War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think...
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Every war when it comes or before it comes is represented not as a war but...
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were...
Quotes About War
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All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the...
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There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing...
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And of course in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans...
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I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States...
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How do you tell troops who volunteered to fight for our freedoms that the...
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I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake...