People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

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Ian Hamilton Finlay CBE (28 October 1925 – 27 March 2006) was a Scottish poet writer artist and gardener.