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Top 60 Norman Maclean Quotes (2024 Update)

Norman Maclean Quote: “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 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 Quote: “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “Poets talk about “spots of time”, but it is really the fishermen who 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.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “I am haunted by waters.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “So it is that we can seldom help anybody. Either we don’t know what part to give or maybe we don’t like to give any part of ourselves. Then, more often than not, the part that is needed is not wanted. And even more often, we do not have the part that is needed.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “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.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us. You can love completely without complete understanding.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “One of life’s quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “When exhausted and feeling sorry for yourself, at least change your socks.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “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.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “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.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “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.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren’t noticing which makes you see something that isn’t even visible.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “Many of us would probably be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “The nearest anyone can come to finding himself at any given age is to find a story that somehow tells him about himself.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “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.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “To him, all good things – trout as well as eternal salvation – came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “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.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “Each one of us here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved 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.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “Dear Jesse, as the moon lingers a moment over the bitterroots, before its descent into the invisible, my mind is filled with song. I find I am humming softly; not to the music, but something else; some place else; a place remembered; a field of grass where no one seemed to have been; except a deer; and the memory is strengthened by the feeling of you, dancing in my awkward arms.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. 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.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “Perhaps we always wondered which of us was tougher, but, if boyhood questions aren’t answered before a certain point in time, they can’t ever be raised again. So we returned to being gracious to each other, as the wall.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing. It is also interesting that thoughts about fishing are often carried on in dialogue form where Hope and Fear – or, many times, two Fears – try to outweigh each other. One.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “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.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “If he comes back,” she nodded. I thought I saw tears in her eyes but I was mistaken. In all my life, I was never to see her cry. And also he was 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.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “When I looked, I knew I might never again see so much of the earth so beautiful, the beautiful being something you know added to something you see, in a whole that is different from the sum of its parts.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “Far back in the impulses to find this story is a storyteller’s belief that at times life takes on the shape of art and that the remembered remnants of these moments are largely what we come to mean by life. The short semihumours comedies we live, our long certain tragedies, and our springtime lyrics and limericks make up most of what we are. they become almost all of what we remember of ourselves.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “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.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “Power comes not from power everywhere, but from knowing where to put it on.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “Nobody,” he said, “has put in a good day’s fishing unless he leaves a couple of flies hanging on the bushes. You can’t catch fish if you don’t dare go where they are.” “Let.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “Eventually the watcher joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “That’s how you know when you have thought too much – when you become a dialogue between You’ll probably lose and You’re sure to lose.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “Sunrise is the time to feel that you will be able to find out how to help somebody close to you who you think needs help even if he doesn’t think. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.”
Norman Maclean Quote: “She was one of the most beautiful dancers I’ve ever seen. She made her partner feel as if he were about to be left behind, or already had been. It is a strange and wonderful and somewhat embarrassing feeling to hold someone in your arms who is trying to detach you from the earth and you aren’t good enough to follow her.”
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