89 “the novel which should stand” – Margaret Storm Jameson quoted in George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four With a Critical Introduction and Annotations by Bernard Crick (Clarendon University Press, 1984), p. 96.
90 “Reading it in a Communist country” – Quoted in Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XX, 3643, p. 129.
91 “the type of state” – Hansard, HC Deb, July 21, 1949, vol. 467, col. 1623.
92 “I thought Nineteen Eighty-Four was a frightful, miserable, defeatist book” – Wadhams, p. 205.
93 “barely distinguishable” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 205.
94 “Behind Stalin” – Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, p. 61.
95 “the totalitarian danger” – Frankfurter Rundschau, November 5, 1949, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 281.
96 “Orwell, actually” – New Leader, June 25, 1949, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 264.
97 “his book reinforces” – Life, July 4, 1949.
98 “required reading” – Evening Standard, June 7, 1949.
99 “sickness” – Masses and Mainstream, August 1949, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 274.
100 “cynical rot” – Ibid., p. 275.
101 “filthy book” – Pravda, May 12, 1950, reprinted in Meyers (ed.), p. 282.
102 “blank hopelessness” – Quoted in Publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XX, 3643, p. 128.
103 “if I was going to smear somebody” – Orwell letter to Mr. Shaw, June 20, 1949, CW XX, 3650, p. 139.
104 “some very shame-making publicity” – Orwell letter to Richard Rees, July 28, 1949, CW XX, 3669, p. 154.
105 “will pretend to be much more” – Orwell’s Statement on Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XX, 3636, p. 134.
106 “NOT intended as an attack on socialism” and “I do not believe” – Orwell’s Statement on Nineteen Eighty-Four, CW XX, 3636, p. 136.
107 “didn’t do two pennorth of good” – Warburg, p. 119.
108 “Having read Mr. Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four” – NBC University Theater: Nineteen Eighty-Four, NBC, August 27, 1949.