All George Woodcock Quotes
- I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence. Began
- My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India. Become Involved
- When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative. Act
- 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… Allow
- It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. Companions
- 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… Circulations
- 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… All
- 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.… Extremely
- I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something. Among
- I believe in that connection between freedom and the city. Believe
- 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… Ascended
- 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… Admired
- 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… Canadian
- 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,… Deal
- 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… Among
- 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… Almost Entirely
- 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… Associated
- 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… All