Thomas McGuane Quotes

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• My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw
• Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.
• Young anglers love new rivers the way they love the rest of their lives. Time does not seem to be of the essence and somewhere…
• An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.
• I like young girls. Their stories are shorter.
• Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.
• The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.
• Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it…
• Giving freaks a pass is the oldest tradition in Montana.
• The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too.
• By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.
• To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The…
• 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 of…
• America is like one of those old-fashioned six-cylinder truck engines that can be missing two sparkplugs and have a broken flywheel and have a crankshaft…
• After fifty years of living, it occurs to me that the most significant thing that people do is go to work, whether it is to…
• I may be the wrong person for my life.
• It don't do you no nevermind to tell nobody nothing.
• Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about.
• We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young…

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