Jack Ohman quotes
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“If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.”
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“I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that I can’t buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.”
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“Terrorism really doesn't strike at physical structures as much as it strikes at ideas, and its main fear is ideas. And cartoonists are particularly effective at distilling ideas.”
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“Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis on midge materials as well as enough fur and feathers to whip out a half dozen of virtually every conceivable dry pattern nature can throw at me. I have used it once, in 1993.”
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“I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that I can’t buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.”
-- Jack Ohman
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Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
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“A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.”
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“The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?”
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“Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.”
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“Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.”
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“I now believe that fishing is far more important than the fish.”
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“On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.”
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