Цитаты из книги «1984. Книга для чтения на английском языке»

You think, I dare say, that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it! We’re destroying words – scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone.

It was safer, though, as he well knew, even a back can be revealing

You had to live – did live, from habit that became instinct – in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.

Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard

Down at street level another poster, torn at one corner, flapped fitfully in the wind, alternately covering and uncovering the single word INGSOC

There was one on the house-front immediately opposite.

He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party

The voice came from an oblong metal plaque like a dulled mirror which formed part of the surface of the right-hand wall.

which had something to do with

Inside the flat a fruity voice was reading out a list of figures which had something to do with the production of pig-iron