69 “as though their two minds” – Ibid., p. 19.
70 “writing the diary” – Ibid., p. 84.
71 “There was no idea” – Ibid., p. 268.
72 “how to discover” – Ibid., p. 201.
73 “This drama that I have played out” – Ibid., p. 281.
74 “A government based on terrorism” – Muggeridge, The Thirties, p. 208.
75 “victory after victory” —Orwell, CW IX, p. 281.
76 “in the long run probably” – Orwell, “The Prevention of Literature”, CW XVII, 2792, p. 374.
77 “We control matter” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 277.
78 “How many fingers” – Ibid., p. 264.
79 “a kind of arithmetic [sic] progression” – New Republic, March 16, 1953, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 315.
80 “The object of persecution” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 276.
81 “The moral to be drawn” – Orwell’s Statement on Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XX, 3636, p. 134.
82 “Mankind was living” – London Times, June 8, 1949.
83 “with cries of terror” – New York Times Book Review, July 31, 1949.
84 “I read it with such cold shivers” – John Dos Passos letter to Orwell, October 8, 1949, CW XX, 3698, p. 194.
85 Several booksellers told Warburg– See Muggeridge, Like It Was, p. 331.
86 “too terrible a novel” – E. M. Forster, quoted in Warburg, p. 116.
87 “a glorious book” – Arthur Koestler letter to Orwell, August 26, 1949, CW XX, 3681A, p. 328.
88 “profoundly important” – Huxley letter to Orwell, October 21, 1949.