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I remember how, back in the 1980s, the Scottish Flow Country became an object of bemused controversy as rich celebrities and businessmen from south of the border acquired great tracts of this vast wetland in the far north in order to plant non-native conifer plantations that attract hefty tax breaks.

~John Burnside

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The older I get, the happier my childhood becomes.

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I don't want to suggest that matrimony was necessarily a tragic affair - some of our neighbours' marriages seemed quite functional, if somewhat routine; nevertheless, in the workaday world, it is wedlock that is most likely to offer the occasion for life-threatening disappointment.

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Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my first love. At fifteen, she was tall, slender, very dark: an intelligent, sly girl possessed of what I think of now, though I didn't think of then, as a kind of debatable beauty.

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In many traditions, hawks are sacred: Apollo's messengers for the Greeks, sun symbols for the ancient Egyptians and, in the case of the Lakota Sioux, embodiments of clear vision, speed and single-minded dedication.

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The only pleasure in redecorating or moving house comes from stumbling across books that I'd almost forgotten I owned.

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If I tell you a story, you can choose to believe me, or you can question it.

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When you have a child, you think about your personal history and what you offer them as a larger narrative, and I realised I knew nothing about my father's circumstances other than what he'd told me.

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My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was.

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Andoya is in a different world, set at the northern edge of Europe in what seems to be a time and weather of its own.

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Biography

Nationality: Scottish

Type: Writer

Born: March 19th, 1955

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