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"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
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"There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it."
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"I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world."
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"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
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"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."
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"I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run."
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"The less you need, the more you live."
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"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."
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"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
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"Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound."
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"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."
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"When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man."
Poetry
"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."
People
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"And in a way, that's been a help to me, because I take great passions for a particular poet - sometimes it lasts for many years, sometimes only for a while. This happens to everybody."
Help
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude
"I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."
Love
"It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely."
Conversation
"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."
Poetry
"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
Reading
"And it's impossible for me to read Henry James."
Reading
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