"England is a country that ought to be able to attract tourists."
First published in Tribune, 18 August 1944
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"About 4 or perhaps 6 should make a pair of bedroom slippers."
George Orwell's diary, 12 August 1946
"Very few modern people would bother to write down such trifles."
Manchester Evening News, 28 July 1944
"There are disgusting scenes in the Tube stations at night."
London Letter, Partisan Review, Fall 1944
"There has been a strong tendency to push these facts out of sight."
Published in The Observer, 16 July 1944
"The one thing that never arrives is equality."
Review of The Freedom of the Streets by Jack Common
"There was a certain fitness in this, since her own husband had been vaporized a couple of years earlier."
First published on this day in 1949
"The average person never buys a new book, except perhaps a Penguin."
First published in Tribune, 2 June 1944
"By retaining one’s childhood love of such things as trees, fishes, butterflies and [...] toads, one makes a peaceful and decent future a little more probable."
First published spring 1946
"To blame somebody like Northcliffe for making money in the quickest way is like blaming a skunk for stinking."
First published in Tribune, 21 April 1944