"The best thing fishing taught me, I think was how to be alone. Without this ability no writer can really survive or work, and there is a strong relationship between the activity of the fisherman, letting his line down into unknown depths in the hope of catching an unseen prey (which may be worth keeping, or may not) and that of a writer trolling his memory and reflections for unexpected jags and jerks of association."
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Robert Hughes
Robert Studley Forrest Hughes (28 July 1938 β 6 August 2012) was an Australian art critic, writer, and documentary broadcaster.
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