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Ian Hamilton Finlay

"I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens have always worked in collaboration, and never made their own inscriptions."

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Akshay Vasu

"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

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Akshay Vasu

"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."

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"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."

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"I met with people who are already very angry with the tribunal."

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"Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem."

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Akshay Vasu

"The people of our state will no longer tolerate advocates of treason."

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"It's got to do with putting yourself in other people's shoes and seeing how far you can come to truly understand them. I like the empathy that comes from acting."

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"We ought to know that all people are not the same and so we must not expect the same attitude from all people. Different people behave differently and that is what makes different people different."

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"If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have read hundred different books! Every person you know is a book; world is full of walking books; some are boring, some are marvellous, some are weak, some are powerful, but they are all useful because they all carry different experiences of different paths!"

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time."

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is."

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public."

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural."

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture."

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one."

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it."

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not."

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever."

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