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Norman MacCaig has 33 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
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When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.
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But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better…
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If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.
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I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense.
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When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs…
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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
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When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous.
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All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the…
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Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men…
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A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven…
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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more…
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I want America to know that you can't believe everything you hear, and nowadays, you can't believe everything you see.
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In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.
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Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the…
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Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.
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To be a top-class athlete, you have to train hard, you have to eat right, you have to get enough rest. I…
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Nowadays you envy a manic-depressive. Half the time he's happy, the other half he's right.
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You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have…
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Nowadays you can't tell, watch the crotch, it may swell.
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Nowadays you can't be loud enough!
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I was always pretty organized in high school and my mother, she always pushed me to just overachieve, both my parents. (They)…
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Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
— Roald Dahl
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Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.
— Maynard James Keenan
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