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Quote by Norman MacCaig
Im very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. - Nor

Im very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. – Norman MacCaig

Other quotes by Norman MacCaig

All those authors there, most of whom of course Ive never met. Thats the poetry side, thats the prose side, thats the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get an affection for books that youve enjoyed. – Norman MacCaig

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Poetry
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Norman MacCaig
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When I was asked to be Writer in Residence at Edinburgh I thought, you cant teach poetry. This is ridiculous. – Norman MacCaig

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Poetry
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Norman MacCaig
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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. – Norman MacCaig

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teacher
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Norman MacCaig
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Other Quotes from
Nature
category

Where there are large powers with little ambition… nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes. – Jonathan Swift

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Nature

Nature, as we know her, is no saint…. She comes eating and drinking and sinning. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience”

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Nature

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. – William Howard Taft

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Nature

I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine. – Edward Abbey

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Nature

Random Quotes

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. – William Allen White

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Miscellaneous

At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact. – George Plimpton, Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback, 1965

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Super Bowl

Nobody likes insurance companies, especially health insurance companies. – P. J. ORourke

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Health

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. – Harry Caray

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World Series