29 “frightful cigarettes” – Daily Mirror, December 14, 1954.
30 “an inexhaustible rocket fuel” – John Lehmann, quoted in Spurling, p. 53.
31 “With a round Renoir face” – Stephen Spender, journal entry, December 24, 1980, in New Selected Journals 1939–1995, ed. Lara Feigel and John Sutherland with Natasha Spender (Faber & Faber, 2012), p. 586.
32 “My own father had died” – Spurling, p. 27.
33 “meanwhile take care” – Orwell letter to Sonia Brownell, April 12, 1947, CW XIX, 3212, p. 124.
34 “so-called humanism” – Spurling, p. 77.
35 “a bag of wind” – Orwell letter to Warburg, October 22, 1948, CW XIX, 3477, p. 457.
36 “I’m good at spotting people” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 128.
37 “her youth and prettiness” – Spurling, p. 93.
38 “atmosphere of hockey-fields” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 12.
39 “only a rebel” – Ibid., p. 163.
40 “It was characteristic” – Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Facsimile, p. 101.
41 “ ‘Who cares?’ ” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 161.
42 “The Nazis explained” – Randall Swingler, “The Right to Free Expression”, Polemic, no. 5, September – October 1946, CW XVIII, 3090, pp. 433–34.
43 “The ideal subject” – Arendt, p. 622.
44 “In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world” – Ibid., p. 500.
45 “dual standard of thought” – Orwell, “The Last Man in Europe”, CW XV, 2377, p. 368.
46 fifty thousand TV licences– Kynaston, p. 305.
47 “some kind of mental instability” – Quoted in Gordon Bowker, George Orwell (Hachette Digital, 2003), p. 162.
48 “I would like to reassure” – Joe Moran, Armchair Nation (Profile, 2013), p. 27.