George Orwell Quote

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin.

The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940 (ed. Harvill Secker, 1968)

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened ...

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened ...

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened ...

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened ...