“What’s the point of truth” – Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, p. 201. Хаксли О. О дивный новый мир / пер. О. Сорока. – М.: АСТ, 2014. 352 с.

90 “a taste for words” – Quoted in Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley: A Biography: Volume One: 1894–1939 (Chatto & Windus, 1973), p. 92.

91 “There is no power-hunger” – Orwell, “Freedom and Happiness”, Tribune, January 4, 1946, CW XVIII, 2841, p. 14.

92 “the quite natural interaction” – Orwell, CW V, p. 83.

93 “had stayed human” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 172.

94 “The birds sang” – Ibid., p. 230.

95 “If there is hope” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 72.

96 “Vague New World” – Quoted in Bew, p. 236.

97 “a Brave New World” – Muggeridge, p. 24.

98 “some kind of Aldous Huxley Brave New World” – Orwell, CW IV, p. 97.

99 “degenerate art” – Cyril Connolly, “Year Nine”, collected in The Condemned Playground, p. 158.

100 “I fear, wasn’t best pleased with it” – Aldous Huxley letter to Harold Raymond, March 19, 1932, Grover Smith, p. 359.

101 “a great disappointment” – Quoted in Peter Edgerly Firchow, The End of Utopia: A Study of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (Associated University Presses, 1984), p. 135.

102 “Bible of the impotent genteel” – Quoted in ibid., p. 59.

103 “one of the most brilliant” – H. G. Wells, The Shape of Things to Come (Gollancz, 2017), p. 354.

104 “an ultra-left revolutionary” – Mackenzie, p. 394.

105 “the most effective transmitting instrument” – Wells, Experiment in Autobiography, p. 797.

106 “never met a man” – Ibid., p. 806.

107 “Come and see us again” – Ibid., p. 819.

108 “Russia had let me down” – Mackenzie, p. 381.

109 “a disgruntled inspector-general” – Ibid., p. 403.

110 “It gives in one eddying concentration” – New York Times Magazine, April 17, 1927.

111 “decaying fragments” – Ibid.

112 “a mess of a film” – Mackenzie, p. 391.

113 “every scientific advance” – Orwell, Reply to J. F. Horrabin, Tribune, May 19, 1944, CW XVI, 2467, p. 186.

114 “It never occurred to Mr. Wells” – Orwell, Review of Film Stories by H. G. Wells, Tribune, June 21, 1940, CW XII, 640, p. 191.

115 “all-round trustification” – Orwell letter to Brenda Salkeld, June 1933, CW X, 176, p. 317.

116 “partly because” – Orwell, CW IX, p. 197.

117 “The failure of mankind” – Kingsley Martin, Editor: A Second Volume of Autobiography 1931–45 (Hutchinson & Co., 1968), p. 107.

118 “old, tired and shrivelled” – Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 424.

119 “I have no gang” – Quoted in ibid., p. 413.

120 “Time to Go” – Ibid., p. 445.

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1 “All propaganda is lies” – Orwell, War-time Diary, March 14, 1942, CW XIII, 1025, p. 229.

2 “excellent company” – Anthony Powell, To Keep the Ball Rolling Volume II: Messengers of Day (Heinemann, 1978), p. 24.

3 “that screaming little defective” – Orwell, “Wells, Hitler and the World State”, CW XII, 837, p. 537. Оруэлл Дж. «1984» и эссе разных лет / пер. А. Зверев. – М.: Прогресс, 1989. С. 100–120.

4 “Wells is too sane” and “since 1920” – Ibid., p. 540.

5 “intellectual brutality” and “a human being” – Orwell letter to Stephen Spender, April 15, 1938, in CW XI, 435, p. 132.

6 “one of those unusual beings” – George Woodcock, Orwell’s Message: 1984 and the Present (Harbour Publishing, 1984), p. 124.

7 The argument at Langford Court – The most reliable account of the dinner is in Inez Holden’s diaries, reprinted in Crick, pp. 429–30.

8 “an amusing evening” – Crick, p. 430.

9 “solve all the ills” – Orwell, “The Rediscovery of Europe”, The Listener, March 19, 1942, CW XIII, 1014, p. 213.

10 “foolish generalisations” – H. G. Wells letter to The Listener, April 9, 1942, ibid., p. 218.

11 “I don’t say that at all” – Quoted in Sherbone, p. 333.

12 “two wasted years” – Orwell letter to Philip Rahv, December 9, 1943, CW XVI, 2390, p. 22.

13 “strange boring nightmare” – Orwell, “English Writing in Total War”, New Republic, July 14, 1941, CW XII, 831, p. 530.

14 “all complacent optimists” – H. V. Morton, I, James Blunt (Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1942), p. 58.

15 “Lord Murdoch and General Pointer do not exist” – Robin Maugham, The 1946 MS. (War Facts Press, 1943), p. 45.

16 “good flesh-creeper” – Orwell, “Review of Pamphlet Literature”, New States man and Nation, January 9, 1943, CW XIV, 1807, p. 301.

17 “Only the mentally dead” – Orwell, “London Letter”, Partisan Review, March – April 1941, CW XII, 740, p. 355.

18 “We must remember” – Connolly, The Condemned Playground, p. 273. “the practice of lying” – Orwell, Review of An Epic of the Gestapo by Sir Paul Dukes, Tribune, September 13, 1940, CW XII, 686, p. 258.

19 “so unspeakable” – Orwell, Review of The Lights Go Down by Erika Mann, Tribune, August 23, 1940, CW XII, 676, p. 238.

20 “the horrible political jungle” – Orwell, Review of Never Come Back by John Mair, New Statesman and Nation, January 4, 1941, CW XII, 741, p. 359.

21 “expected to sell his honour” – Orwell, “Confessions of a Book Reviewer”, Tribune, May 3, 1946, CW XVIII, 2992, p. 302.

22 “easily bored” – Anthony Powell, To Keep the Ball Rolling Volume I: Infants of the Spring (Heinemann, 1976), p. 139.

23 “sadism” – Orwell, Time and Tide, August 9, 1941, CW XII, 840, p. 542.

24 “the nightmare atmosphere” – Orwell, Time and Tide, January 25, 1941, CW XII, 751,