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And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#because #better #boring #drooping #dry

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#best way #get #husbands #old #perhaps

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#fish #i #nowadays #queue #rivers

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#characters #every #four #i #like

People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#got #haven #i #interest #lack

When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#hearing #i #i always #man #poet

When I was a teacher, teachers would come into my classroom and admire my desk on which lay nothing whatever, whereas theirs were heaped with papers and books. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

#books #classroom #come #desk #heaped

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing. ↗

— George MacDonald

#little #man #matters #may #moment

I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#broadway #broadway musicals #gay #i #know

I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#everybody #i #i always #identical #joke