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However, I dont feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all.

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"However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really"

- Ian Hamilton Finlay

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This quote is written / told by Ian Hamilton Finlay somewhere between October 28, 1925 and today. He/she was a famous Poet from Scotland. The author also have 17 other quotes.

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