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Ian Hamilton Finlay Quotes

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: scottish
Birth: October 28, 1925 - March 27, 2006

Topics

Life I Am Try Always Different Only

It is crucial that members of Congress cast votes that are supportive of the values upon which our nation was founded: equality, freedom, and opportunity for all people.

Opportunity Freedom Equality People

As a writer who has struggled with depression, the question is one that has long troubled me. Should I resist treatment, on the off-chance my creative output will somehow be affected?

Depression Creative Me Long Will

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.

You Experiment Out Got Figure Works

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

Love Think Bad Television Way Shot

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Courage Bad Form Very

I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.

Peace People Impossible Think Done

No, Islam did not free African-Americans from slavery, not in Africa and not in Europe or America. Evangelical Christianity did that.

Slavery Free America Islam Africa

It's kinda cool seeing people having real fights with people they really know.

People Cool Seeing Know Real Really

My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I'm in debt to him every time I invest inanimate objects with uncanny animism. But his female characters annoy me.

Life Time Me Debt Way Everything

I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write down what happens to me during the day that I don't want to forget. So I have books filled with little things like that.

Miranda Cosgrove

Day Me Little Things Down Sometimes

Many writers can't make a living. So to be able to teach how to write is valuable to them. But I don't really know about its value to the student. I don't mean it's useless. But I wouldn't have wanted anyone to teach me how to write.

Value Me Student Know Living Mean

We must remain steadfast in our commitment to our troops, and to those fighting for a free and democratic Iraq because freedom makes our country and the world a safer place.

Freedom Commitment World Free Place

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