4 “I loved living in a world” – Andrew Smith, Totally Wired: On the Trail of the Great Dotcom Swindle (Simon & Schuster, 2012), p. 295.
5 “dilution and cheapening” – Estate of Orwell v. CBS, 00-c-5034 (ND Ill).
6 “asleep or awake” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 29.
7 “Orwell understood the difference” – Bernard Crick, “Big Brother Belittled”, Guardian, August 19, 2000.
8 “The world of Nineteen Eighty-Four ended in 1989” – Garton Ash.
9 “Nineteen Eighty-Four is about power out of control” – Independent, March 1, 2003.
10 “Oceania (the US and Britain)” – Guardian, December 31, 2002.
11 “Orwellian euphemisms” – David Fricke, “Bitter Prophet”, Rolling Stone, June 26, 2003.
12 “The war is waged” – Fahrenheit 9/11 (dir. Michael Moore, 2004).
13 “there is a war on” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 60.
14 “the reality-based community” – Ron Suskind, “Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush”, New York Times Magazine, October 17, 2004.
15 As a popular slogan put it– Daniel Kurtzman, “Learning to Love Big Brother/George W. Bush Channels George Orwell”, SFgate.com, July 28, 2002.
16 “ ‘Orwell’ has been used” – Scott Lucas, Orwell (Haus, 2003), p. 138.
17 “Shakespeare doesn’t have the moral authority” – John Rodden, Every Intellectual’s Big Brother: George Orwell’s Literary Siblings (University of Texas Press, 2006), p. 159.
18 “V was designed to warn” – Mihir Bhanage, “Never thought V would become a symbol of global rebellion”, TNN, March 1, 2017.
19 “Orwell imagined a huge change” – Philip Roth, “The Story Behind ‘The Plot Against America,’ ” New York Times, September 19, 2004.
20 “Any time there’s a new invention” – Author interview with Charlie Brooker for Empire, London, July 7, 2016.
21 “not the advancement of science” – Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, p. 8.
22 “The Ministry didn’t do this to us” – Fahrenheit 451 (HBO, 2018).
23 “Maybe Apple’s ‘1984’ ad” and “wasn’t a rupture” – Rebecca Solnit, “Poison Apples”, Harper’s, December 2014.