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George Orwell | 'When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am ...

'When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.'

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