If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.

Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children