The Intellectual Is Different From The Ordinary

Nationalism Is Power Hunger Tempered By Self-deception.

For A Creative Writer Possession Of The 'truth' Is Less Important Than Emotional Sincerity.

From The Totalitarian Point Of View, History Is Something To Be Created Rather Than Learned.

All The Papers That Matter Live Off Their Advertisements, And The Advertisers Exercise An Indirect Censorship Over News.

It Was Curious To Think That The Sky Was The Same For Everybody, In Eurasia Or Eastasia As Well As Here. And The People Under The Sky Were Also Very Much The Same--everywhere, All Over The World, Hundreds Or Thousands Of Millions Of People Just Like This, People Ignorant Of One Another's Existence, Held Apart By Walls Of Hatred And Lies, And Yet Almost Exactly The Same--people Who Had Never Learned To Think But Were Storing Up In Their Hearts And Bellies And Muscles The Power That Would One Day Overturn The World.