No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.
George OrwellUntil one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.
George Orwell