And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate.
George OrwellPerhaps it is only when people are somewhere near the starvation level that they have anything to sing about.
George OrwellThe plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.
George OrwellAs soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.
George Orwell