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"This is not your standard "How to restore your VW Beetle book. It's also not a workshop manual. Aside from a basic rundown on the differences between various bug models through the years, there is a section on some things you can do to preserve your bug. Mostly however, what I've done is reviewed all the things I did to my bugsand put those ideas together as cheap, skillful, cheap, d.i.y, cheap means of enhancing your grocery getter's performance and handling."
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"As you grow old, if you don't earn some money or inspiration out of your hobby, you will stop pursuing your hobby."
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"I've caught fish as big as I am. I've caught marlin close to 300 pounds."
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"As I grew steadily more comfortable in the kitchen, I found that, much like gardening, most cooking manages to be agreeably absorbing without being too demanding intellectually. It leaves plenty of mental space for daydreaming and reflection."
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"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
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"My question about luging is, How do you get into the luge community to begin with? Is it one day like, 'Mom, Dad, I really want to luge.' And your parents are like: 'O.K., I'll quit my job. We'll move to an Alpine community.'"
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"Maybe I'll paint, do photography, just something else. I can see that."
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"Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them."
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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."
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"I can ski out of my back door."
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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!"
Love
"When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you can't teach poetry. This is ridiculous."
Poetry
"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Love
"When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me."
Solitude
"In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry."
Poetry
"I don't think of myself all the time."
Time
"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
"I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry."
Film
"When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man."
Poetry
"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
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