- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Orders
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- Nov 07, 2020
It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- English School
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Intellectual
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020