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I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.
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Freedom Believe I Believe
Connection
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When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.
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Consequence
Dramatically
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I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.
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Wide
Began
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I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
George Woodcock /
Me People Something
Mathematicians
Painters
Psychologists
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It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.
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Companions
Orders
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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 /
Helping
University
Split
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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.
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Independence
Wander
Allow
Search
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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.
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Compromise
Editing
Salary
Professor
Reached
Received
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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.
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Loyal
Man Know Who
Extremely
Orwell
Passionately
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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 /
Life Great Live
Great Deal
Several
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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.
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Intellectual
Nevertheless
Answered
Unpopular
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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.
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Discipline
School System
Wounds
English School
Merely
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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 /
Ladders
Magazines
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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 /
Magazines
Refuse
Fairly
Good I Am Sometimes
Payments
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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.
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Cities
Medal
Associated
Freedom Always Me
Gather
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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.
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Ten
Twenties
Me Better People
Admired
Contemporaries
Early Thirties
Ten Times
Led
Suppose
Thirties
Whom
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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 /
Council
Decided
Granted
Resigned
Entirely
Immediately
Reasons
Scientists
Unpaid
Wanting
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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 /
Nevertheless
Depend
Initiatives
Physical
Recognize
Structures
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