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"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."
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"The denial of assistance is sometimes the greatest assistance. The trick is recognizing when this is the case."
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"I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform."
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"If you have no job, help is needed."
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"With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown."
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"When you desire to help, you will find a way to do it."
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"Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you."
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"Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help."
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"When it comes to poverty, there is no need to say anything. All we need to do is to help, the moment we encounter it."
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"Be the help you seek from others."
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"When question ariseHelp or not to helpAlways help."
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"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
People
"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."
Help
"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."
People
"Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason."
Love
"I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense."
Care
"If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex."
Age
"And it's impossible for me to read Henry James."
Reading
"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."
Books
"When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous."
Poetry
"And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so."
Poetry
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