• A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

    George Orwell: A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a 
 failure, and then fail all the more completely because he 
 drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the 
 English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because 
 our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language 
 makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
    George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.270, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt