I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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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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.

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