A River Runs Through It and Other Stories Quotes by Norman Maclean

10/14/2016 A River Runs Through It and Other Stories Quotes by Norman Maclean
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“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The Like All Quotes
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river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the
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basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under
the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
tags: flood, river, me, water, words 526 likes
“Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved Like
one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing to help,
Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help
those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give
or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it
is those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love
them - we can love completely without complete understanding.”
tags: life, love 298 likes
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― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It: And Other Stories
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“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. Like
We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and
our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his
own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being
fishermen, and we were left to assume, as my brother and I did, that all
first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that
John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.”
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“Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.” Like
tags: enemy, friends, friendship, philosophy, silence 66 likes
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“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with Like
and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely
without complete understanding.”
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“All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you Like
see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something
that isn't even visible.”
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“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.” Like

tags: people, philosophy, sunrise, thoughts 57 likes
“When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" Like
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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“Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like Like
me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are
probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one
of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the
most haunting instincts. It will not let us go.”
tags: brothers, family, people, philosophy, rela onships 53 likes
“Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so Like
much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect”
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“Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of Like
course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I
shouldn’t. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the
summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing
until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon,
all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds
of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a
fish will rise.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The
river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the
the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
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“...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made Like
and not happened.”

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“I had as yet no notion that life every now and then becomes literature Like
—not for long, of course, but long enough to be what we best remember,
and often enough so that what we eventually come to mean by life are
those moments when life, instead of going sideways, backwards,
forward, or nowhere at all, lines out straight, tense and inevitable, with
a complication, climax, and, given some luck, a purgation, as if life had
been made and not happened.”
tags: life, literature, purpose 20 likes
“When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so Like
beautiful, the beautiful being something you know added to something
you see, in a whole that is different from the sum of its parts. What I saw
might have been just another winter scene, although an impressive one.
But what I knew was that the earth underneath was alive and that by
tomorrow, certainly by the day after, it would be all green again. So what
I saw because of what I knew was a kind of death with the marvellous
promise of less than a three-day resurrection.”
tags: fire, renewal, revival 15 likes
“To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - came by Like
grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy”
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“I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river Like
that went by and I who watched... Eventually the watcher joined the
river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.
Even the anatomy of a river was laid bare. Not far downstream was a dry
channel where the river had run once, and part of the way to come to
know a thing is through its death. But years ago I had known the river
when it flowed through this now dry channel, so I could enliven its stony
remains with the waters of memory.”
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“As a Scot and a Presbyterian, my father believed that man by nature Like
was a mess and had fallen from an original state of grace. Somehow, I
early developed the notion that he had done this by falling from a tree.
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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“You like to tell true stories, don't you?' he asked, and I answered, 'Yes, Like
I like to tell stories that are true.'

Then he asked, 'After you have finished your true stories sometime, why
don't you make up a story and the people to go with it?
Only then will you understand what happened and why.
It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.”
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“At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers Like
than books.”
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“Sunrise is the time to feel that you will be able to find out how to help Like
somebody close to you who you think needs help even if he doesn't
think. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear”
tags: helping‐others, inspira on, sunrise 8 likes
“Ahead and to the west was our ranger station - and the mountains of Like
Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and

seemingly even beyond the world.”
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never to come back. Without interrupting each other, we both said at the
same time, “Let's never get out of touch with each other.” And we never
have, although her death has come between us.”
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“What a beautiful world it was once. At least a river of it was.” Like
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“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The Like
river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the
the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted
by waters.”
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“Poets talk about “spots of time,” but it is really fishermen who Like
experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a

spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is
gone.”
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“Indirectly, though, he was present in many of our conversations. Once, Like
for instance, my father asked me a series of questions that suddenly

made me wonder whether I understood even my father whom I felt
closer to than any man I have ever known. “You like to tell true stories,
don't you?” he asked, and I answered, “Yes, I like to tell stories that are
true.” Then he asked, “After you have finished your true stories
sometime, why don't you make up a story and the people to go with it?
“Only then will you understand what happened and why. “It is those we
live with and love and should know who elude us.” Now nearly all those
I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still
reach out to them.”
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories Quotes

universe. To him all good things-trout as well as eternal salvation-come

“Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.” Like

“At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.” Like

“Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so Like

and not happened.”

I like to tell stories that are true.'

Idaho, poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and

“What a beautiful world it was once. At least a river of it was.” Like

experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a

“Indirectly, though, he was present in many of our conversations. Once, Like

for instance, my father asked me a series of questions that suddenly

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