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18 quotes by George Woodcock

George Woodcock Born May 8, 1912 Winnipeg, Canada Died January 28, 1995 Vancouver, Canada Language English Nationality Canadian Genre Political biography, critical essays Subject Anarchism Relatives Arthur Woodcock (father) Margaret Gertrude Lewis (mother) George Woodcock (/ˈwʊdˌkɑːk/; May 8, 1912 – January 28, 1995) was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, an essayist and literary critic. He was also a...
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I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

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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... →

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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... →

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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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I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.

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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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It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.

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My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.

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When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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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... →

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