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"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
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"When alone, concentrate on the fruits of the solitude, not on the poisons of it!"
"A time of solitude will always produce some fruits."
"Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy."
"Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!"
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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."
"I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense."
"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."
"I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that."
"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!"
"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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