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“For this year” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 153.40
“The old local order” – Wells, Utopia, p. 33.41
“the keystone” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 643.42
“sober forecasting” – Ibid., p. 646.43
“designed to undermine” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 147.44
“Generally the fault” – Quoted in David C. Smith, H. G. Wells: Desperately Mortal: A Biography (Yale University Press, 1986), p. 100.45
“Well, the world is a world” – H. G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought (Chapman & Hall Ltd., 1902), p. 317.46
“one of the most remarkable men alive” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 162. “an explorer of a new world” – Quoted in ibid., p. 170.47
“Heaven defend us” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 219.48
“voluntary noblemen” – Wells, Utopia, p. 86. Уэллс Г. Современная Утопия» / пер. В. Зиновьев. – М.: Терра, 2010. 372 с.49
“imaginary laws” – Ibid., p. 23.50
“strange and inhuman” – Ibid., p. 14.51
“like a well-oiled engine” – Ibid., p. 117.52
“There will be many Utopias” – Ibid., p. 245.53
“We all want to abolish” – Orwell, “Can Socialists Be Happy?”, CW XVI, 2397, pp. 39–40.54
“struggle, danger and death” – Orwell, Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler, New English Weekly, March 21, 1940, CW XII, 602, p. 118.55
“The difference between us” – Quoted in Smith, p. 167.56
“besetting sin” – Attlee, p. 138.57
“counterblast to one of the heavens” – E. M. Forster, The Collected Tales of E. M. Forster (Alfred A. Knopf, 1947), pp. 7–8.58
“Science, instead of freeing man” – Quoted in P. N. Furbank, E. M. Forster: A Life (1879–1970) (Secker & Warburg, 1979), p. 161.59
“several thousand” – Forster, p. 145.60
“What was the good” – Ibid., p. 156.61
“Progress had come to mean” – Ibid., p. 186.62
“terrestrial facts” and “absolutely colourless” – Ibid., p. 183.63
“confused, tedious” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 660.64
“He has neither the patience” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 206.65
“plan for the reconstruction” – H. G. Wells, Socialism and the Family (A. C. Fifield, 1906), p. 6.66
“Many writers, perhaps most” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, December 6, 1946, CW XVIII, 3131, p. 511.67
“Wells watered down” – Orwell letter to Julian Symons, CW XIX, 3397, p. 336.68
“The return to complete sanity” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 668.69
“a wave of sanity” – Ibid., p. 666.70
“he suffers from a messianic delusion” – H. L. Mencken, “The Late Mr. Wells”, in Prejudices: First Series (Jonathan Cape, 1921), p. 28.71
“there was, among the young” – Orwell, CW V, p. 129.72
“My boom is over” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 319.73
“from nebula to the Third International” – Quoted in ibid., p. 327.74
“amazing little man” and “very refreshing” – H. G. Wells, Russia in the Shadows (Hodder & Stoughton, 1920), p. 138.75
“What a narrow petty bourgeois!” – Quoted in Sherborne, p. 259.76
“never desist” – H. G. Wells, Men Like Gods (Cassell & Company, Ltd., 1923), p. 289.77
“fear-haunted world” – H. G. Wells, The Dream (Jonathan Cape, 1924), p. 152.78
“a huge glittering vehicle” – Orwell, CW V, p. 193.79
“a memorable assault” – Ibid., p. 189.80
“started out as a parody” – Paris Review, no. 23, Spring 1960.81
“I feel that the nightmare” – Aldous Huxley letter to George Orwell, October 21, 1949, in Grover Smith (ed.), Letters of Aldous Huxley (Chatto & Windus, 1969), p. 605.82
“I am writing a novel” – Aldous Huxley letter to Kethevan Roberts, May 18, 1931, ibid., p. 348.83
“a rather horrid, vulgar little man” – Aldous Huxley letter to Robert Nichols, January 18, 1927, ibid., p. 281.84
“Men no longer amuse themselves” – “Spinoza’s Worm” in Do What You Will (Chatto & Windus, 1929), quoted in Hillegas, p. 115.85
“Utopias appear much more realisable” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (Chatto & Windus, 1984), p. 3. Original passage is in French.86
“just to know the worst” – Quoted in Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (Vintage, 2007), p. xx.87
“City of Dreadful Joy” – Aldous Huxley, Jesting Pilate (Chatto & Windus, 1926), p. 267.88
“It is all movement and noise” – Ibid., p. 284.89
“What’s the point of truth” – Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, p. 201. Хаксли О. О дивный новый мир / пер. О. Сорока. – М.: АСТ, 2014. 352 с.90
“a taste for words” – Quoted in Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley: A Biography: Volume One: 1894–1939 (Chatto & Windus, 1973), p. 92.91
“There is no power-hunger” – Orwell, “Freedom and Happiness”, Tribune, January 4, 1946, CW XVIII, 2841, p. 14.92
“the quite natural interaction” – Orwell, CW V, p. 83.93
“had stayed human” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 172.94
“The birds sang” – Ibid., p. 230.95
“If there is hope” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 72.96
“Vague New World” – Quoted in Bew, p. 236.97
“a Brave New World” – Muggeridge, p. 24.98
“some kind of Aldous Huxley Brave New World” – Orwell, CW IV, p. 97.99
“degenerate art” – Cyril Connolly, “Year Nine”, collected in The Condemned Playground, p. 158.