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Norman MacCaig

"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."

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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 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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"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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