Zane Grey Quotes

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• It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
• I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.
• What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold…
• Jealousy is an unjust and stifling thing.
• Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.
• Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
• If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.
• Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.
• Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
• I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
• I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
• I love my work but do not know how I write it.
• I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
• I will see this game of life out to its bitter end
• Fishing is a condition of the mind wherein one cannot have a bad time.
• No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.
• I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
• Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the…
• The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
• The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.

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