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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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"Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low."
"Love and attraction is the magnetic language of the heart."
"The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance."
"When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it."
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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."
"And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping."
"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."
"People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share."
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