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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

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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. ↗

— Norman MacCaig

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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

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

— Norman MacCaig

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Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. ↗

— George MacDonald

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It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity. ↗

— George MacDonald

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Attitudes are more important than facts. ↗

— George MacDonald

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When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over. ↗

— George MacDonald

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Doing a series, every week you work with a new star. ↗

— Lee Majors

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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. ↗

— George MacDonald

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