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.
100 “I fear, wasn’t best pleased with it” – Aldous Huxley letter to Harold Raymond, March 19, 1932, Grover Smith, p. 359.
101 “a great disappointment” – Quoted in Peter Edgerly Firchow, The End of Utopia: A Study of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Associated University Presses, 1984), p. 135.
102 “Bible of the impotent genteel” – Quoted in ibid., p. 59.
103 “one of the most brilliant” – H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come (Gollancz, 2017), p. 354.
104 “an ultra-left revolutionary” – Mackenzie, p. 394.
105 “the most effective transmitting instrument” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 797.
106 “never met a man” – Ibid., p. 806.
107 “Come and see us again” – Ibid., p. 819.
108 “Russia had let me down” – Mackenzie, p. 381.
109 “a disgruntled inspector-general” – Ibid., p. 403.