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The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon.

George Orwell
Memories, Past, Agree Upon
George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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.

George Orwell
Memories, Past, Years
1940 Inside theWhale,'My Country Right or Left'.

The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.

George Orwell
Memories, Party, Past
George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.305, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

George Orwell
Memories, Evil, Spain
George Orwell (2016). “Homage to Catalonia / Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught.

George Orwell
Memories, Lakes, Sea
George Orwell (1969). “Coming Up for Air”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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