24 “SECRETS ARE LIES” – Dave Eggers, The Circle (Penguin, 2014), p. 303.
25 “a new and glorious openness” – Ibid., p. 491.
26 “What happens to us” – Margaret Atwood, “When Privacy Is Theft”, New York Review of Books, November 21, 2013.
27 “warned us of the danger” – Edward Snowden, Alternative Christmas Message, Channel 4, December 25, 2013.
28 As President Obama– Press conference, California, June 7, 2013.
29 “very Orwellian” – All In With Chris Hayes, MSNBC, June 10, 2013.
30 “So, Are We Living in 1984?” – Newyorker.com, June 11, 2013.
31 “So George Orwell was wrong” – Tilman Baumgaertel, “ ‘I am a communication artist’: Interview with Nam June Paik”, Rhizome.org, February 5, 2001.
32 “completely, irredeemably, outrageously wrong” – Peter Huber, Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest (Free Press, 1994), p. 235.
33 “the proles do the watching” – Ibid., p. 228.
34 “a development that promises” – George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, with an introduction by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin, 2003), p. xxv.
35 “We have entered the age” – Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, p. xxi.
36 “from Lisbon to Vladivostok” – Quoted in Snyder, p. 82.
37 “If the state so wishes” – Quoted in Gessen, p. 249.
38 “show business and propaganda” – Peter Pomerantsev, Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia (Faber & Faber, 2015), p. 7.
39 “the very language and categories” – Ibid., p. 77.
40 “Versionland” – Guardian, September 15, 2018.
41 “They don’t require belief ” – Anne Applebaum, “A Warning from Europe: The Worst is Yet to Come”, The Atlantic, October 2018.
42 “the hottest literary property in town” – Hollywood Reporter online, April 3, 2017.
43 “the clock is already striking thirteen” – Variety.com, March 21, 2017.