Canadian - Writer | May 8, 1912 - January 28, 1995
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
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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 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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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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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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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.
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