A Tragic Situation Exists Precisely When Virtue

The Great Enemy Of Clear Language Is Insincerity. When There Is A Gap Between One's Real And One's Declared Aims, One Turns, As It Were, Instinctively To Long Words And Exhausted Idioms, Like A Cuttlefish Squirting Out Ink.

The Result Of This Is That So-called Peace Propaganda Is Just As Dishonest And Intellectually Disgusting As War Propaganda. Like War Propaganda, It Concentrates On Putting Forward A ‘case’, Obscuring The Opponent’s Point Of View And Avoiding Awkward Questions.

Orthodoxy Is The Ability To Say Two And Two Make Five When Faith Requires It.

The Hospital Is The Antechamber To The Tomb

By The Time You Have Perfected Any Style Of Writing, You Have Always Outgrown It.