RELATIVELY AMUSING:
"On clichés, George Orwell took a typically severe line: "Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech that you are used to seeing in print." All very well for him to say, but wasn't he, uh, setting the bar rather high? He was a journalist, the greatest of the 20th century, but how many times did an editor say to him, at 7:20 p.m., "We need it by eight o'clock or we don't need it?" I love Orwell, but his advice should be seen in the same light as the Ten Commandments: Mostly admirable in theory, definitely worth bearing in mind, but unlikely to be entirely achieved in practice."
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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