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"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
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"One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them."
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"The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man."
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"The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
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"I'm a guy who never wanted to hold a steady job, because I was worried about the monotony."
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"It's the job that's never started takes longest to finish."
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"For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals."
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"If kids come to educators and teachers from strong, healthy functioning families, it makes our job easier. If they do not come to us from strong, healthy, functioning families, it makes our job more important."
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"I'm an ordinary guy with an extraordinary job."
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"Masochism is a valuable job skill."
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"I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano."
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"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 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
"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
Reading
"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!"
Love
"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."
Friendship
"And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it."
Poetry
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