Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.

The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary.

He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written.

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior.