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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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"As only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro, never allow yourself to be swayed by popular opinion."
"No girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself."
"Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your soul."
"Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!"
"I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here."
"The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone."
"What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.... It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
"Believe in yourself. Carve your own path. Build your own dreams. Be your own hero."
"Forget it. Never explain, never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't."
"Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something."
"I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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