Norman Maclean Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
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“Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.”
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“...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.”
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“It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store. Moreover, they demand something from themselves early in life that can be taken ever after as a demonstration of this abiding feeling.”
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“I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.”
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“As for my father, I never knew whether he believed God was a mathematician but he certainly believed God could count and that only by picking up God's rhythms were we able to regain power and beauty. Unlike many Presbyterians, he often used the word "beautiful.”
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“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 mirages danced with each other and then they danced through each other and then they joined hands and danced around each other. Eventually the water joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.”
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“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 and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.”
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“How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.”
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“All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.”
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“Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.”
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“At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.”
-- Norman Maclean
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