109 “in accordance with the native genius” – Ibid., p. 235.
110 “brings to the fierce struggle” – Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan 1897–1960 (Victor Gollancz, 1997), p. 233.
111 “the invisible man” – Tribune, March 30, 1945.
112 “a recently dead fish” – Orwell, War-time Diary, May 19, 1942, CW XIII, 1182, p. 331.
113 “colourless” – Orwell, “London Letter”, CW XVII, 2719, pp. 248–49. “Some of the generals” – Lord Attlee, “The Man I Knew”, Observer, January 31, 1965.
114 “As a sign of the vitality of democracy” – Orwell, “The British General Election”, Commentary, November 1945, CW XVII, 2777, p. 340.
115 “I just thought the alteration” – Orwell letter to Roger Senhouse, March 17, 1945, CW XVII, 2635, p. 90.
116 “To me this single sentence” – Warburg, p. 51.
117 “the destruction of the Soviet myth” – Orwell, Preface to the Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm, March 1947, CW XIX, 3198, p. 88.
118 “It is a sad fable” – Graham Greene, Evening Standard, August 10, 1945, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 196.
119 “a sort of fairy story” – Orwell letter to Leonard Moore, March 19, 1944, CW XVI, 2436, p. 126.
120 “the tops” – Orwell letter to Rayner Heppenstall, January 25, 1947, CW XIX, 3163, p. 32.
121 “To say that I was horrified” – Margaret Atwood, “George Orwell: Some Personal Connections”, reprinted in Curious Pursuits, p. 333.
122 “sinister enchanter” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 17.
123 “some kind of invisible influence” – Orwell, The Complete Works of George Orwell VIII: Animal Farm (Secker & Warburg, 1997), p. 53.
124 “theoretical possibility” – Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile, p. 309.
125 “They all remembered” – Orwell, CW VIII, p. 53.
126 “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL” – Ibid., p. 90.
127 “Are you certain” – Ibid., pp. 43–44.
128 “But you could prove nothing” – Orwell, CW IX, 38–39.