"You are free to be drunkard, an idler, a coward, a backbiter, a fornicator; but you are not free to think for yourself."
from Burmese Days (1943)
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In this compilation of essays, reviews and excerpts from his novels, George Orwell examines what truth is for him and the dangers that certain political positions unravel.
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