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> [I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/i-simply-feel-that-the-frontier-of-angling-is-no-longer-either/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

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> [Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/fishing-should-be-a-ceremony-that-reaffirms-our-place-in-the-natural/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

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## More by Thomas McGuane

> [The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/the-trouble-is-you-can-t-properly-present-something-you-don-t-believe/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

> [“She ate her breakfast in silence, then drove downtown in weather so lowering the streetlights seemed decapitated. This was when you could discover if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/she-ate-her-breakfast-in-silence-then-drove-downtown-in-weather-so/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

> [I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/i-simply-feel-that-the-frontier-of-angling-is-no-longer-either/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

> [We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/we-have-reached-the-time-in-the-life-of-the-planet-and-humanity-s/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

> [The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/the-occupational-hazard-of-making-a-spectacle-of-yourself-over-the/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

> [An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/an-undisturbed-river-is-as-perfect-as-we-will-ever-know-every/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

> [My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/my-life-was-the-best-omelette-you-could-make-with-a-chainsaw/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

> [“That food was so bad I can't wait for it to become a turd and leave me.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/that-food-was-so-bad-i-can-t-wait-for-it-to-become-a-turd-and-leave-me/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

> [“They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/they-were-unironic-enthusiasts-for-all-the-mass-pleasures-the-culture/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

> [It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/it-don-t-do-you-no-nevermind-to-tell-nobody-nothing/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

> [I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/i-d-be-happy-to-have-my-biography-be-the-stories-of-my-dogs-to-me-to/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

> [By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/by-your-late-thirties-the-ground-has-begun-to-grow-hard-it-grows/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

> [Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/angling-is-extremely-time-consuming-that-s-sort-of-the-whole-point/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

> [Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/early-on-i-decided-that-fishing-would-be-my-way-of-looking-at-the/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

> [The essence of sport is courage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-mcguane/the-essence-of-sport-is-courage/)

[Thomas McGuane](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-mcguane/)

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