Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

Weakness is strength.

It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

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.