27 “less terrifying” – Orwell, “London Letter”, CW XII, 740, p. 354.
28 “a constant scramble” – Orwell, War-time Diary, September 7, 1940, CW XII, 685, p. 254.
29 “getting glimpses” – Orwell, War-time Diary, October 19, 1940, CW XII, 698, p. 277.
30 “By the middle of 1941” – Orwell, “In Defence of P. G. Wodehouse”, The Windmill, no. 2, July 1945, CW XVII, 2624, p. 60.
31 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.