"I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that."

-- Norman MacCaig

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“Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.”
“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.”

Source : Hal Borland (1967). “Hill Country Harvest”
“There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.”

Source : Speech in Brisbane, Australia, March 17, 1982.
“Nobody gives way to anybody. Everyone just angles, points, dives directly toward his destination, pretending it is an all-or-nothing gamble. People glare at one another and fight for maneuvering space. All parties are equally determined to get the right-of-way--insist on it. They swerve away at the last possible moment, giving scant inches to spare. The victor goes forwards, no time for a victory grin, already engaging in another contest of will. Saigon traffic is Vietnamese life, a continuous charade of posturing, bluffing, fast moves, tenacity and surrenders.”

Source : Andrew X. Pham (2010). “Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam”, p.75, Macmillan
“It's very difficult to do street casting with girls, because a beautiful girl in real life won't necessarily have the silhouette or the presence needed for a show.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Because things grow. Wherever there is air and light and open space, things grow.”
“What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.”
“I think childhood is to everyone a lost land.”

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