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Norman MacCaig

"If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex."

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"If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex."

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"Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age."

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"To come across as younger than they are: Women buy creams that promise to slow aging, men buy fast cars."

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"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."

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"The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age."

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"I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles."

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"If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch."

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"A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer."

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"49 and holding. Holding tight! Fighting that heinous age every step of the way."

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"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."

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"I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age."

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"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."
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"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
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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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"I was very interested in American poetry for many years. Much less now."
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"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
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"I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry."
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"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."
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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'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
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"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
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