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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 don't believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn't pay anything, and that sort of thing.

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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.

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

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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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I believe in that connection between freedom and the city.

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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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I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.

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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.

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

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The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

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The child is father of the man.

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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.

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Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

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Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.

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When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

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The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

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Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

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I learned to be with myself rather than avoiding myself with limiting habits; I started to be aware of my feelings more, rather than numb them.

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