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George Woodcock Quotes
I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence. - George Woodcock Quotes
I believe in that connection between freedom and the city. - George Woodcock Quotes
I dont believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didnt pay anything, and that sort of thing. - George Woodcock Quotes
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. - George Woodcock Quotes
I suppose Im led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom Ive admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right. - George Woodcock Quotes
I suppose, a person for whom freedom is the most important thing - intellectual freedom and, as far as possible, physical freedom. - George Woodcock Quotes
I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that. - George Woodcock Quotes
I was editing Canadian Literature. I didnt want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professors salary. - George Woodcock Quotes
I was unpopular at school just because I was an intellectual. I always answered all the questions off the top of my head but they nevertheless resented because of that. - George Woodcock Quotes
It doesnt really mean a great deal of difference to a life. You live as you wish to do and if a job is oppressing, you leave it. Ive done it on several occasions. - George Woodcock Quotes
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. - George Woodcock Quotes
My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasnt merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit. - George Woodcock Quotes
My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India. - George Woodcock Quotes
Now I am a writer who can command fairly good payments from magazines with large circulations, I very often refuse to write for them and still write sometimes for small magazines for nothing. - George Woodcock Quotes
Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely loyal. He hated passionately and irrationally. - George Woodcock Quotes
Structures are fine as long as they are controlled by the people who actually work within the structures, but theyre dicey even there. - George Woodcock Quotes
They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldnt understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned. - George Woodcock Quotes
We dont allow people to be knights, to be knighted by the Queen of England, but we do allow them to become members of the Order of Canada. - George Woodcock Quotes
What Im going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. Its the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city. - George Woodcock Quotes
When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative. - George Woodcock Quotes
You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you dont depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind. - George Woodcock Quotes
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