64 “Let’s say it’s an antiprediction” – Atwood, New York Times.
65 “I understood him up to a point” – Time, November 28, 1983.
66 “one of the most disgusting books” – Christopher Norris (ed.), Inside the Myth: Orwell: Views from the Left (Lawrence and Wishart, 1984), p. 81.
67 “Normally, to speculate” – Norman Podhoretz, “If Orwell Were Alive Today”, Harper’s, January 1983.
68 “the sort of well-heeled power worshiper” – Christopher Hitchens and Norman Podhoretz, Harper’s, February 1983.
69 National Review– See Robert C. de Camara, “Homage to Orwell”, National Review, May 13, 1983; E. L. Doctorow, “On the Brink of 1984”, Playboy, February 1983.
70 Tribune published– See Tribune, January 6, 13, 20, 27, 1984.
71 “a year of hope” – Guardian, December 31, 1983.
72 “tomb-robbers” – Neil Kinnock, “Shadow of the Thought Police”, London Times, December 31, 1983.
73 “we would have been taken so far” – The Sun, January 2, 1984.
74 “ideological overkill” – Paul Johnson, Spectator.
75 “a grim warning” – Quoted in Michael Glenny, “Orwell’s 1984 Through Soviet Eyes”, Index on Censorship, vol. 13, no. 4, August 1984.
76 “a fully realistic picture” – Quoted in Labedz.
77 “anti-Soviet agitation” – Glenny.
78 “No one has ever lived in Lilliput” – Guardian, January 8, 1984.
79 “How did he know?” – Timothy Garton Ash, “Orwell for Our Time”, Observer, May 6, 2001.
80 “probably the single Western author” – Quoted in Thomas Cushman and John Rodden (eds.), George Orwell Into the Twenty-First Century (Paradigm, 2004), p. 274.
81 “He was the first person” – Glenny.
82 “When I read the story” – Milaniméka, “A Czech Winston Smith”, Index on Censorship, vol. 13, no. 1, February 1984.
83 “The struggle of man against power” – Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, trans. Michael Henry Heim (Faber & Faber, 1992), p. 3.