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"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
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"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
"There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books."
"A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest."
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"When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man."
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