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so alarmed by a rat– see Bob Edwards’s account in Coppard and Crick, p. 147.55
“If there is one thing” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 59.56
“The political side of the war” – Ibid., p. 200.57
“She was the first person” – Rees, p. 147.58
“It is an atmosphere” – Borkenau, p. 241.59
“liked by nobody” – Ibid., p. 182.60
“A Trotskyist” – Ibid., p. 240.61
“It goes without saying” – Beevor, p. 226.62
“an unmistakable and horrible feeling” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 97.63
“a furtive, gutted look” – John Dos Passos, The Theme Is Freedom (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1956), p. 141.64
“to be talking to an honest man” – Ibid., p. 145.65
“The match that fired” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 225.66
“It was the first time” – Ibid., p. 121.67
“Tear the mask” – Ibid., p. 126.68
“To hear what was said” – Orwell, The Complete Works of George Orwell II: Burmese Days (Secker & Warburg, 1997), p. 140.69
“The only broadcasting service” – Taylor, p. 205.70
“One of the dreariest effects” – Orwell, CW VIp. 208.71
“I hope I shall get the chance” – Orwell letter to Victor Gollancz, May 9, 1937, in CW XI, 368, p. 23.72
“almost a mental disease” – Beevor, p. 271.73
“This was simply” – Crossman (ed.), p. 253.74
“I gradually acquired” – Ibid., p. 254.75
“They couldn’t hit a bull” – Wadhams, p. 90.76
“a violent resentment” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 139.77
“Get out” – Taylor, p. 230.78
“the best of the bunch” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 39.79
“his face was no more” – Robert Conquest, The Great Terror: A Reassessment (Pimlico, 2008), p. 410.80
“nightmare atmosphere” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 151.81
“however little you were actually conspiring” – Ibid., p. 148.82
“pronounced Trotskyists” – David Caute, Politics and the Novel During the Cold War (Transaction, 2010), p. 47.83
“It was a queer business” – Orwell letter to Rayner Heppenstall, July 31, 1937, CW XI, 381, p. 53.84
“It was about the only time” – Wadhams, p. 96.85
“He said he used to take” – Ibid., p. 93.86
“Almost every journalist” – Quoted in Paul Preston, We Saw Spain Die (Constable, 2008), p. 15.87
“The Spanish War and other events” – Orwell, “Why I Write”, CW XVIII, 3007, p. 319.88
“There has been a quite deliberate conspiracy” – Orwell, “Spilling the Spanish Beans”, New English Weekly, July 29 and September 2, 1937, CW XI, 378, p. 46.89
“there can be no argument” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 248.90
“I found myself feeling very strongly” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, February 4, 1944, The Complete Works of George Orwell XVI: I Have Tried to Tell the Truth 1943–1944 (Secker & Warburg, 2001), 2416, p. 88.91
“It was my purpose” – Warburg, p. 9.92
“It shows us the heart” – Quoted in Miriam Gross (ed.), The World of George Orwell (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971), p. 144.93
“I warn everyone” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 227.94
“If I had not been angry” – Orwell, “Why I Write”, CW XVIII, 3007, p. 320. Оруэлл Дж. Почему я пишу / пер. В. Ф. Мисюченко. 1988.95
“To me your book” – Quoted in Crick, p. 363.96
“It is a most encouraging thing” – Orwell, Review of The Communist International by Franz Borkenau, New English Weekly, September 22,1938, CW XI, 485, p. 204.
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“Civilisation is bound to perish” – Borkenau, p. 257.98
“continued to proclaim” – Wadhams, p. 42.99
“literature of disillusionment” – Orwell, “Arthur Koestler”, Tribune, September 11, 1944, CW XVI, 2548, p. 393.100
“is one of those men” – Orwell, Review of The Mysterious Mr. Bull by Wyndham Lewis and The School for Dictators by Ignazio Silone, New English Weekly, June 8, 1939, in CW XI, 547, p. 355.101
“a form of Socialism” – Orwell, “Inside the Whale”, CW XII, 600, p. 102. Оруэлл Дж. Во чреве кита / пер. А. Кабалкин. – М.: АСТ, 2003.102
“a mechanism for explaining” – Orwell, Review of The Civil War in Spain by Frank Jellinek, The New Leader, July 8, 1938, in CW XI, 462, p. 174.103
“his speech though delivered” – Orwell diary entry, March 16, 1936, in CW X, 294, p. 456.104
“Mosley will bear watching” – Orwell, CW V, p. 197.105
“had an almost irresistible fascination” – Orwell, “Inside the Whale”, CW XII, 600, p. 101. Оруэлл Дж. Во чреве кита / пер. А. Кабалкин. – М.: АСТ, 2003.106
“tolerated and even defended” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 213.107
“The formula 2 + 2 = 5” – Eugene Lyons, Assignment in Utopia (George G. Harrap & Co., Ltd., 1938), p. 240.108
“The peculiar horror” – Orwell, Review of Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell, The Adelphi, January 1939, in CW XI, 520, pp. 311–12.109
“I was guilty” – Lyons, p. 628.110
“So many weary” – Ibid., p. 635.Глава 2
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“What fun it must have been” – Orwell, Review of My Life: The Autobiography of Havelock Ellis, Adelphi, May 1940, CW XII, 617, p. 155.2
“A map of the world” – Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man (privately printed, 1895), p. 43.3
“permanent happiness” – Orwell (as “John Freeman”), “Can Socialists be Happy?”, Tribune, December 24, 1943, CW XVI, 2397, p. 39.4
“some central-heated” – Ibid., p. 42.5
“Whoever tries to imagine” – Ibid., p. 43.