truth in advertising

"Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.”

Through a glass darkly

"Good writing is like a windowpane."

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying

" An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. "

" Political language - and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists - is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "

Language

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950)

If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
George Orwell (1903 - 1950)