# Quote — George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier

> The modern English literary world, at any rate the high-brow section of it, is a sort of poisonous jungle where only weeds can flourish.

- Author: [George Orwell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell.md)
- Book: [The Road to Wigan Pier](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-orwell/the-road-to-wigan-pier.md)
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> We spend our lives in abusing England but grow very angry when we hear a foreigner saying exactly the same things.

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> Tea, the Englishman's opium.

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> It directs attention away from the central fact that poverty is poverty, whether the tool you work with is a pick-axe or a fountain-pen.

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