I suppose, a person for whom freedom is the most important thing - intellectual freedom and, as far as possible, physical freedom.
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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.George Woodcock
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 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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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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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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