WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:41:14 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg sloppiness – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Willingham, Bill -- Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland, ch. 9 (2012) https://wist.info/willingham-bill/79356/ https://wist.info/willingham-bill/79356/#respond Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:40:12 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=79356 Bill Willingham - Freedom is sloppy (art by Jim Fern)

BIGBY: Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny’s the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.


Bill Willingham (b. 1956) American writer and comics artist
Fables: Werewolves of the Heartland, ch. 9 (2012)
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Art by Jim Fern. ]]> https://wist.info/willingham-bill/79356/feed/ 0 79356 Orwell, George -- Essay (1946-04), “Politics and the English Language,” Horizon Magazine https://wist.info/orwell-george/36761/ https://wist.info/orwell-george/36761/#respond Sat, 15 Apr 2017 21:31:23 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=36761 A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be 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 (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1946-04), “Politics and the English Language,” Horizon Magazine
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