"What is the relationship between agreement with a writer’s opinions, and enjoyment of his work?"

First published Polemic, No. 5, September–October 1946

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"What kind of answers are those to give to people who are labouring under a huge and justified grievance?"

First published in Tribune, 13 October 1944

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"How were those people to get home?"

First published in Tribune, 6 October 1944

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"What is needed is the right to print what one believes to be true, without having to fear bullying or blackmail from any side."

George Orwell responds to a critic

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"Most of the time he violently disagrees with the people beside whom he is fighting."

George Orwell in Vogue

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"This attitude is defended, if at all, solely on grounds of power."

George Orwell on the Warsaw Uprising

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"Last night just as we were going to bed, a pretty heavy explosion."

War-time diary, 31 August 1940

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"Clip only one wing, preferably the right."

Domestic diary, 22 August 1938

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"If giving the land of England back to the people of England is theft, I am quite happy to call it theft."

George Orwell and his readers

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"I would certainly like to review for the New Yorker occasionally if they want me to..."

6 August 1946, Typewritten

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“Don’t you feel quite differently towards the Russians now they are in a jam?”

Orwell's diary, 28th July 1942

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"I am doing nothing that is not futility and have less and less to show for the time I waste."

Orwell's diary, 23rd July 1942

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