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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence. — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
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… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
Orwell was the sort of man who was full of grievances. He was very loyal. Once he got to know you, he was extremely… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
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… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
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… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
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… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
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… — George Woodcock Copy Share Image
