32 “She had not a thought” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 69.
33 “Celluloid, rubber” – Ibid., p. 24.
34 “I dislike big towns” – Orwell letter to Stanley J. Kunitz and Howard Haycraft, April 17, 1940, CW XI, 613, p. 148.
35 “Only a little while” – Orwell, CW IV, p. 258.
36 “We swim in it” – Orwell, CW VII, pp. 15–16.
37 “It was our thought” – New York Times, October 31, 1938.
38 “covering up the truth” – Quoted in Rich Heldenfels, “ ‘War of the Worlds’ still vivid at 75”, Akron Beacon Journal, October 26, 2013.
39 “The complexity of modern finance” – Hadley Cantril, The Invasion From Mars (Princeton University Press, 1940), p. 154.
40 “so many things we hear” – Ibid., p. 158.
41 “cannot tell lies” – Orwell, Review of The Invasion From Mars by Hadley Cantril, New Statesman and Nation, October 26, 1940, in CW XII, 702, p. 279.
42 “The nation as a whole” – Quoted in Jefferson Pooley and Michael J. Socolow, “The Myth of the War of the Worlds Panic”, Slate, October 28, 201.3
43 “The evident connection” – Orwell, Review of The Invasion From Mars, CW XII, 702, p. 280.
44 “the perfect demonstration” – Quoted in Howard Koch, The Panic Broadc ast: Portrait of an Event (Little, Brown & Company, 1970), p. 93.
45 “You are not going out of your mind” – Patrick Hamilton, Gas Light (Constable & Company, Ltd., 1939), p. 42.
46 “a lunatic asylum” – Orwell, CW VI, p. 152.
47 “mentally deranged” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 258.
48 “Am I really mad?” – Iulia de Beausobre, The Woman Who Could Not Die (Chatto & Windus, 1938), p. 85.
49 “the idea that I’ve got to abandon them” – Orwell letter to Jack Common, September 29, 1938, CW XI, 489, p. 212.
50 “the vulgar lie” – Orwell, Review of The Novel To-Day by Philip Henderson, New English Weekly, December 31, 1936, in CW IX, 342, p. 534.
51 “does not seem to be so very different” – Orwell, Review of Assignment in Utopia by Eugene Lyons, New English Weekly, June 9, 1938, in CW XI, 451, pp. 160–61.