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"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."
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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
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"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it."
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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
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"Read much, but not many books."
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"In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive."
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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
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"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."
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"But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!"
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"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."
Poetry
"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
Books
"When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous."
Poetry
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude
"In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry."
Poetry
"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
Minimalism
"I don't think of myself all the time."
Time
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