Norman MacCaig Quotes
People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.
Quotes to Explore
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There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.
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The next time you're driving from New York to Boston on I-95, you should make a little detour in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to visit the Old Slater Mill national historic landmark. It's the site of what is considered to be the first successful water-powered textile spinning mill in America.
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One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
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Working on my knowledge and education and learning how to become a more talented and wise person make me feel more sexy.
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When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
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I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.
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I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.
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The difference must be distinguished between worship and respect. Islam orders you to obey and respect, as long as you are not worshiping anything other than God... Islam is a religion of peace. You don't attack. You explain.
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I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.
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You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?
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I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.
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You can get ahead in the world. But you will have to work, you will have to want tremendously to accomplish something, and then be willing to pay the price. Are you willing?
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To really love Joan Didion—to have been blown over by things like the smell of jasmine and the packing list she kept by her suitcase—you have to be female.
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I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
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Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don't realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay.
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Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook. I feel that my brain works differently, and words come out differently, if I have a pencil in my hand, rather than if I have a keyboard. I tend to add more in the margins. I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.
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People haven't got the interest in long long works these days. A lack of interest which I share.
