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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
"In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew."
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
Explore more quotes by Norman MacCaig
"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
"All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about."
"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."
"If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex."
"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."
"When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous."
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