Norman Maclean Quotes

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• Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.
• I am haunted by waters.
• At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.
• In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.
• All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.
• How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.
• He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman…
• Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a…
• I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the river the heat…
• We sat on the bank and the river went by. As always, it was making sounds to itself, and now it made sounds to us.…
• One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing
• My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and…
• One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it…
• The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.
• Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks…
• It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
• The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.
• In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana,…
• Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the…
• When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more…

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