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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.

  Norman Maclean

  Beautiful, Father, Able

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.2, University of Chicago Press

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• My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.

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  Art, Father, Fishing

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.4, University of Chicago Press

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• In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

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  Fishing, Lines, Our Family

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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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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  Giving, Needs, Helping

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.81, University of Chicago Press

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• A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.

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  Volunteer, Helping, Mystery

  Norman Maclean (2010). “Young Men and Fire”, p.112, University of Chicago Press

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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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  Taken, People, Feelings

  Norman Maclean (2010). “Young Men and Fire”, p.28, University of Chicago Press

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• I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.

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  Moving, Mountain, Needed

  Norman Maclean (2017). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories”, p.164, University of Chicago Press

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• I am haunted by waters.

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  Rivers, Water, Environmental

  "A River Runs Through It" (1976)

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• Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

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  Missing, Fantasy, Willing

  Norman Maclean (2010). “Young Men and Fire”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

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• We sat on the bank and the river went by. As always, it was making sounds to itself, and now it made sounds to us. It would be hard to find three men sitting side by side who knew better what a river was saying.

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  Men, Rivers, Sound

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.158, University of Chicago Press

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• ...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

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  Literature, Now And Then, Made

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• How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.

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  Lifetime, Asks

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.160, University of Chicago Press

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• Probably most catastrophes end this way without an ending, the dead not even knowing how they died...,those who loved them forever questioning "this unnecessary death," and the rest of us tiring of this inconsolable catastrophe and turning to the next one.

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  Knowing, Forever, Way

  Norman Maclean (2017). “Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.43, University of Chicago Press

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• When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.

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  Teacher, Perfect, Enough

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.88, University of Chicago Press

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• If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him.

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  Father, Lakes, Sea

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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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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  Sea, Fishing, Dry

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• Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.

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  Idaho, Mountain, World

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.131, University of Chicago Press

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• The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.

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  Cases, Hardest, Behinds

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.59, University of Chicago Press

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• Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.

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  Silence, Enemy, Silent

  Norman Maclean (2009). “A River Runs Through It and Other Stories, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.111, University of Chicago Press

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