Hugh MacDiarmid quotes
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“It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.”
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“Football fanaticism and high intellect seldom go together.”
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“The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.”
-- Hugh MacDiarmidSource : 1928 Review of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover in The New Age, 27 Sep. This may very well have been the first published review of Lawrence's novel.
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“Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.”
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“There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.”
-- Hugh MacDiarmidSource : Hugh MacDiarmid, Alan Riach, Michael Grieve (1993). “Selected Poetry”, p.148, New Directions Publishing
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“Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?”
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“In spite of all their kind some elements of worth With difficulty persist here and there on earth.”
-- Hugh MacDiarmidSource : Hugh MacDiarmid (2006). “Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poetry”, p.169, New Directions Publishing
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“If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.”
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Source : Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph.D. (1909). “Epochs of American History”
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