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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits…
• To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as…

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