“In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
