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"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
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"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."
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"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."
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"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."
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"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
People
"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
"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
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude
"I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that."
Hobbies
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