By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.
George OrwellAll the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
George OrwellMost people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
George OrwellUsing the word โpoliticalโ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoplesโ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.
George Orwell