"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in……" — Norman MacCaig
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
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Norman MacCaig
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33 Quotes by Norman MacCaig
Norman MacCaig has 33 quotes on this site.
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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 -…
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If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age…
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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…
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When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever,…
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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,…
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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…
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A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have…
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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,…
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And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet -…
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More Gregarious Quotes
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
— Karen Armstrong
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I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For…
— Jose Mujica
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The metaphor of the king as the shepherd of his people goes back to ancient Egypt. Perhaps the use of…
— Northrop Frye
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I know I have within myself... a side of solitude. I think people who know me can see, but people…
— Gerard Butler
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I was a major fan of people in the industry, I was a major movie fan and I was just…
— Tab Hunter
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The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter,…
— Phyllis McGinley
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I'm the most gregarious of men and love good company, but never less alone when alone.
— Peter O'Toole
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The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of…
— Ivor Novello
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Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a…
— Burton Rascoe
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In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for…
— Edmund Gosse
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Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.
— George Orwell
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So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of…
— James Joseph Sylvester
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