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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

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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

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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.

~George Woodcock

Topics: Among Boy Discipline Early English Got Merely Other School School System Spirit System Things Ways Were Which Wounds

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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.

~George Woodcock

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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.

~George Woodcock

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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.

~George Woodcock

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I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.

~George Woodcock

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I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.

~George Woodcock

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: May 8th, 1912

Died: January 28th, 1995

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