Orwell: “It is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.”

There s a common script about about artists who live hard and die young. It says that the combination of a self-destructive lifestyle and art means that they were in some way fully alive, in a way that would be impossible, say, for some happily married husband and father, living in the suburbs and working as Continue reading Orwell: It is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully…