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George Woodcock

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


— 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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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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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.


— George Woodcock


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


— George Woodcock


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About George Woodcock






Did you know about George Woodcock?

Around this time he started to write more prolifically producing several travel books and collections of poetry as well as the works on anarchism for which he is best known. The Woodcock Fund which began in 1989 provides financial assistance to writers in mid-book-project who face an unforeseen financial need that threatens the completion of their book. Though his family was quite poor Woodcock had the opportunity to go to Oxford University on a partial scholarship; however he turned down the chance because he would have had to become a member of the clergy.

He is perhaps best remembered elsewhere for writing Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements (1962) the first post-War history of anarchism. He founded in 1959 the journal Canadian Literature the first academic journal specifically dedicated to Canadian writing.

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