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 admirecontemporaryearly share on social
My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India. George Woodcock facthelpindia Change image and share on social
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing. George Woodcock companionenglishknighthood Change image and share on social
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 answerheadintellectual Change image and share on social
I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence. George Woodcock beginboyfree Change image and share on social
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 circulationcommandfairly Change image and share on social
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. George Woodcock canadiancompromiseedit Change image and share on social
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 binddependfree share on social