This month I read Coming Up For Air by George Orwell. (Review here.) I like Orwell's prose and he has a sharp wit. Here are three quotes that made me laugh or nod in agreement.
As the main character ruminates on being married...
"When a woman's bumped off, her husband is always the first suspect - which gives you a little side-glimpse of what people really think about marriage."
I knew exactly the kind of day he meant with this...
"You know the kind of day that generally comes some time in March when winter suddenly seems to give up fighting. For days past we'd been having the kind of beastly weather that people call 'bright' weather, when the sky's a cold hard blue and the wind scrapes you like a blunt razor-blade. Then suddenly the wind had dropped and the sun got a chance."
And as a driver of an older car with a lot of mileage on it, this bit about his car rang true too...
"You wouldn't believe any machine could vibrate in so many directions at once. It's like the motion of the earth, which has twenty-two different kinds of wobble, or so I remember reading."
It shows how good a writer George Orwell was that 85 years after this book was published I was smiling and nodding as I read it.
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