George Woodcock Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“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.”

“When you act dramatically in that way it often has a consequence that is very negative.”

“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.”

“I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.”

“I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.”

“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.”

“It even has the same phraseology as the English orders of knighthood, companions and this sort of thing.”

“My split with the university was over the fact that I had become involved with helping Tibetans in India.”