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Norman MacCaig

"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."

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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."

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"I don't care whether a book is a first edition or not. I'm not a bibliophile in that word's natural sense."
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"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."
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"I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that."
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"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
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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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"And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it."
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"All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that you've enjoyed."
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"I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now."
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