Homage To Catalonia

These were more popular than the others because they were lighter to carry and less nuisance in a trench, also because they were comparatively new and looked efficient. Actually they were almost useless.

I found myself in the middle of a political discussion that practically never ended.

various sections of the liberal bourgeoisie–the very people who are the supporters of Fascism when it appears in a more modern form.

Later on the famine of matches and candles made life a misery. You do not realize the importance of these things until you lack them.

I remember wondering whether I was frightened, and deciding that I was not.

But the cooks produced dinner on time–a memorable feat.

Everyone who had been in Madrid said that it was completely different there. In Madrid the common danger forced people of almost all kinds into some sense of comradeship. A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within sound of the guns.

From the hotel window I watched it without enthusiasm.

nagging winds.