49 “It seems to me” – Ibid., pp. 413–15.
50 “Every time one goes off” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, December 1, 1944, 2586, p. 487.
51 1943 Mass Observation report– Orwell, “Survey of ‘Civvy Street,’” Observer, June 4, 1944, CW XVI, 2484, p. 249.
52 “A harmful truth” – Michael Scammell, Koestler: The Indispensable Intellectual (Faber & Faber, 2010), p. 160.
53 “Truth is what is useful” – Arthur Koestler, Darkness at Noon, trans. Daphne Hardy (Vintage, 2005), p. 182.
54 “Lost Week-end in Utopia” – Crossman (ed.), p. 82.
55 his friend Eva Striker– Ibid., p. 78.
56 “Who will ever forget” – David Cesarani, Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind (William Heinemann, 1998), p. 175.
57 “Of course I’m guilty!” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 245.
58 “All the confessions that are uttered here” – Ibid., p. 266.
59 “one is imprisoned” – Review of Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler, etc., New Statesman and Nation, January 4, 1941, CW XII, 741, p. 358.
60 “The horror which No. 1” – Koestler, p. 18.
61 “would be ready to believe” – Conquest, p. 113.
62 “an almost perfect specimen” – Orwell, Review of Darkness at Noon, CW XII, 741, p. 358.
63 “The Gletkins” – Koestler, p. 183.
64 “It was almost normal” – Orwell, CW IX, pp. 26–27.
65 Yevgeny Zamyatin’s old friend– Conquest, p. 122.
66 “How could the immortal, collective brain” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 290.
67 “Rubashov remarked jokingly” – Koestler, p. 97.
68 “We persecuted the seeds of evil” – Ibid., p. 83.