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I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.
~ George Woodcock
Began
Boy
Even
Free
How
Intelligence
Man
Realize
Wide
World
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I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.
~ George Woodcock
Believe
Between
City
Connection
Freedom
I Believe
I Believe In
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I don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing.
~ George Woodcock
Anything
Away
Believe
Kicking
Magazines
Mean
Pay
Small
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Thing
Which
Writer
Young
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I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
~ George Woodcock
Among
Like
Mathematicians
Me
Move
Painters
People
Psychologists
Something
Tell
Who
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I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've 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
Admired
Been
Better
Contemporaries
Early
Early Thirties
Fact
Happened
Led
May
Me
People
Right
Suppose
Ten
Ten Times
Than
Thirties
Thought
Times
Twenties
Were
Who
Whom
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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
Allow
Allowed
Case
Come
Could
Creative
Here
Independence
Out
Search
Something
Wander
Where
Which
You
Your
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I was editing Canadian Literature. I didn't want to let Canadian Literature go, so they reached a nice compromise by which I received half a professor's salary.
~ George Woodcock
Canadian
Compromise
Editing
Go
Half
Literature
Nice
Professor
Reached
Received
Salary
Want
Which
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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
Always
Answered
Because
Head
Intellectual
Just
Just Because
Nevertheless
Off
Questions
School
Top
Unpopular
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It doesn't 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. I've done it on several occasions.
~ George Woodcock
Deal
Difference
Done
Great
Great Deal
Job
Leave
Life
Live
Mean
Occasions
Really
Several
Wish
You
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It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.
~ George Woodcock
Companions
English
Even
Orders
Same
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Thing
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My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit.
~ George Woodcock
Among
Boy
Discipline
Early
English
English School
Got
Merely
Other
School
School System
Spirit
System
Things
Ways
Were
Which
Wounds
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My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.
~ George Woodcock
Become
Fact
Had
Helping
India
Involved
Over
Split
University
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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
Am
Command
Fairly
Good
I Am
Large
Magazines
Nothing
Now
Often
Payments
Refuse
Small
Sometimes
Still
Them
Very
Who
Write
Writer
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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
Extremely
Full
Got
Hated
He
Know
Loyal
Man
Once
Passionately
Sort
Very
Who
You
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They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.
~ George Woodcock
Almost
Could
Council
Decided
Decision
Entirely
Go
Granted
Immediately
Leave
Only
Reasons
Resigned
Said
Scientists
Through
Understand
Unpaid
Wanting
Who
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What I'm going to be given I gather is not the key to the city, which in many cities is the case. It's the freedom medal, and for me freedom has always been associated traditionally within the city.
~ George Woodcock
Always
Associated
Been
Case
Cities
City
Freedom
Gather
Given
Going
Key
Many
Me
Medal
Which
Within
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When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.
~ George Woodcock
Act
Consequence
Dramatically
Negative
Often
Very
Way
You
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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 don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.
~ George Woodcock
Am
Any
Bound
Certain
Come
Depend
Free
Government
I Am
Initiatives
Kind
Nevertheless
Physical
Really
Recognize
Still
Structures
Things
You
Yourself
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George Woodcock
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BirthDate
08 May, 1912
DeathDate
28 January, 1995
Country
Canada
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