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"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
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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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"Well, I'm a light traveller. I chuck things away."
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"Generally, people need less than a quarter of what they want."
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"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
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"Progress is discovering what you can do without."
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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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"Fewer the necessities, better your life will be."
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"For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
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"For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing."
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"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
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Explore more quotes by Norman MacCaig
"I find it's impossible for me to read Proust."
Reading
"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."
Art
"And the second question, can poetry be taught? I didn't think so."
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
"But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person."
Job
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude
"If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex."
Age
"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."
Books
"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 used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century."
Love
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