129 “Ah, that is different” – Orwell, CW VIII, p. 55.
130 “Thou watchest over all” – Ibid., p. 63.
131 “Four legs good” – Ibid., p. 21.
132 “though she lacked the words” – Ibid., p. 59.
133 “the huge and simple question” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 96.
134 “Once it went sad in the middle” – Wadhams, p. 159.
135 “never liked being associated” – Coppard and Crick, p. 195.
136 In September 1941– Crick, p. 395.
137 Foreign translations– See Paul Potts in Coppard and Crick, p. 253.
138 “I have been surprised” – Orwell letter to Philip Rahv, April 9, 1946, CW XVIII, 2966, p. 231.
139 some bookshops had mistakenly racked it– See Susan Watson in Coppard and Crick, p. 220.
140 “looking more like a monkey on a stick” – Orwell, “As I Please”, Tribune, January 7, 1944, 2401, p. 55.
141 “I belong to the Left” – Orwell letter to Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, November 15, 1945, CW XVII, 2795, p. 385.
142 Orwell had told A. J. Ayer– Wadhams, p. 168.
143 “the danger of this kind of perfection” – William Empson letter to Orwell, August 24, 1945, reprinted in Crick p. 492.
144 “the mushiest and most maudlin” – Mayhew (ed.), p. 153.
145 “to hell with it” – Orwell letter to Dwight Macdonald, December 5, 1946, CW XVIII, 3218, p. 506.
146 “reaching the exhaustion” – Kingsley Martin, New Statesman and Nation, September 8, 1945, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 197.
147 “hunger, hardship and disappointment” – Orwell, CW VIII, p. 87. “all the seeds of evil” – Orwell, “Catastrophic Gradualism”, CW XVII, 2778, p. 343.
148 “The most encouraging fact” – Introduction to British Pamphleteers, vol. 1, edited by Orwell and Reginald Reynolds, 1948, CW XIX, 3206, p. 109.