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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."
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"There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."

"Answerest thou nothing? Behold how many things they witness against thee."

"Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something."

"Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it."

"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."

"The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing."

"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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