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Orwell enjoyed retelling– Orwell, War-time Diary, July 6, 1941, CW XII, 829, p. 525.32
“switched from one line” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 189.33
“Within two years” – Orwell, War-time Diary, May 18, 1941, CW XII, 803, p. 501.34
“not merely” – Crick, p. 356.35
“The British Government” – Orwell, “Poetry and the Microphone”, The New Saxon Pamphlet, no. 3, March 1945, CW XVII, 2629, p. 79.36
“The peculiarity of the totalitarian state” – “Literature and Totalitarianism”, May 21, 1941, CW XII, 804, p. 504.37
“the Liars’ School” – Coppard and Crick, p. 177.38
“There is no victory in sight” – Orwell, War-time Diary, August 28, 1941, CW XIII, 849, p. 23.39
“If liberty means anything” – Orwell, “The Freedom of the Press”, CW XVII, 2721, p. 2560.40
“an enormous pyramidal structure” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 5.41
“to diminish the range of thought” – Ibid., p. 313.42
“you cannot make a meaningless statement” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, August 18, 1944, 2534, p. 338.43
“There are areas where” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, April 4, 1947, CW XIX, 3208, p. 118.44
“The bigger the machine” – Orwell, “Poetry and the Microphone”, CW XVII, 2629, p. 80.45
“I believe that the B.B.C.” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, July – August 1941, CW XII, 787, p. 472.46
“going through a London fog” – Wadhams, p. 105.47
“for being so ignorant” – J. B. Clark, BBC memo, January 19, 1943.48
“inherently totalitarian” – Orwell, “As I Please”, April 7, 1944, CW XVI, 2450, p. 147.49
“put on your thinking-cap” – Z. A. Bokhari memo to Orwell, September 23, 1941, CW XIII, 846, p. 12.50
“university of the air” – George Orwell, The War Broadcasts, ed. W. J. West (Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1985), p. 13.51
“Few people are able” – Orwell, “Poetry and the Microphone”, CW XVII, 2629, p. 79.52
“I suppose during every second” – “Voice”, August 11, 1942, CW XIII, 1373, p. 459.53
“Crocuses now full out” – Orwell, War-time Diary, March 27, 1942, CW XIII, 1064, p. 249.54
“Its atmosphere is something” – Orwell, War-time Diary, March 14, 1942, CW XIII, 1025, p. 229.55
“The thing that strikes one” – Orwell, War-time Diary, June 18, 1942, CW XIII, 1231, p. 366.56
“He was never quite sure” – Wadhams, p. 132.57
“And now Comrade Orwell” – “Pacifism and the War: A Controversy”, CW XIII, 1270, p. 395.58
“kept our propaganda” – Orwell letter to George Woodcock, December 2, 1942, CW XIV, 1711, p. 214.59
“We were listening to ‘Germany Calling’ ” – Wadhams, p. 128.60
“I think he thought” – Arena: George Orwell.61
“It doesn’t need the eye” – Orwell, “As One Non-Combatant to Another (A letter to ‘Obadiah Hornbooke’)”, Tribune, June 18, 1943, The Complete Works of George Orwell XV: Two Wasted Years 1943 (Secker & Warburg, 2001), 2138, p. 144.62
“Nowadays” – Orwell, War-time Diary, April 1942, CW XIII, 1124, pp. 288–289.63
“If George and I didn’t smoke so much” – Crick, p. 432.64
“the typical figure” – Orwell, Macbeth adaptation, BBC Eastern Service, October 17, 1943, 2319, pp. 280–81.65
“probably the most devastating” – Orwell, “Can Socialists Be Happy?”, CW XVI, 2397, p. 40.66
“an extraordinarily clear prevision” – Orwell, “Politics vs Literature”, CW XVIII, 3089, p. 427.67
“He couldn’t see” – Orwell, “Too Hard on Humanity”, The Listener, November 26, 1942, CW XIV, 1637, p. 161.68
“Orwell never completely lost faith” – Observer, January 29, 1950, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 298.69
“remarkably dreary” – Orwell, “Can Socialists Be Happy?”, CW XVI, 2397, p. 40.70
“A certain smugness” – Orwell, “Review of an Unknown Land”, CW XIV, 1768, p. 254.71
“a very remarkable prophecy” – Orwell, talk on Jack London, BBC, March 5, 1943, CW XV, 1916, p. 5.72
“a very poor book” – Ibid., p. 6.73
“a Socialist with the instincts” – Orwell, Introduction to Love of Life and Other Stories by Jack London, 1945, CW XVII, 2781, p. 355.74
“I am first of all a white man” – Andrew Sinclair, Jack: A Biography of Jack London (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978), p. 108.75
“one of Nietzsche’s blond-beasts” – Jack London, “How I Became a Socialist”, The Comrade, March 1903.76
“You have mismanaged the world” – Joan London, Jack London and His Times: An Unconventional Biography (Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939), p. 308.77
“his gladiator body” – Jack London, The Iron Heel (Everett & Co., 1908), p. 195.78
“1984 as it might have been penned” – Earle Labor, Jack London (Twayne, 1974), p. 114.79
“In reading it one does not” – Joan London, p. 315.80
“one of the best statements” – Orwell, “Jack London”, Forces Educational Broadcast, Light Programme, BBC, October 8, 1945, CW XVII, 2761, p. 303.81
“Intellectually he knew” – Introduction to Love of Life and Other Stories, CW XVII, 2781, p. 354.82
“streak of brutality” – Orwell, talk on Jack London, CW XV, p. 6.83
“understanding of the primitive”, “better prophet” and “You might say” – Ibid., p. 7.