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.
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There are books up there I haven't read for many years but I wouldn't put them out. I never know when I might want to read them again.Norman MacCaig
But you'd have a job to find many of my poems which would seem to be very influenced by a particular person.
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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
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And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.
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When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.
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I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.
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