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The Road to Wigan Pier Quotes

Until you break the law nobody will take any notice of you, and you can go to pieces as you could not possibly do in a place where you had neighbours who knew you. - George Orwell (The Road to Wigan Pier Quotes)

Until you break the law nobody will take any notice of you, and you can go to pieces as you could not possibly do in a place where you had neighbours who knew you.

Source:(Victor Gollancz, ed. 1937), Part I, Chapter V, Page 79
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George Orwell (The Road to Wigan Pier Quotes)
  • Book: The Road to Wigan Pier
  • Writer: George Orwell
  • Genre: Autobiography
  • Published: 1937
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