George Orwell Quote

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money.


The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940 (ed. Harvill Secker, 1968)


In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops,...

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops,...

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops,...

In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops,...