Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.

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

A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.

If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any practical result whatsoever, you've beaten them.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.