List of Norman Maclean Quotes

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Norman Maclean
Total Quotes 44
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.
Idaho Mountain World
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
Silence Enemy Silent
The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.
Cases Hardest Behinds
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.
Sea Fishing Dry
A mystery of the universe is how it has managed to survive with so much volunteer help.
Volunteer Helping Mystery
How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.
Lifetime Asks
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.
Father Lakes Sea
I knew that, when needed, mountains would move for me.
Moving Mountain Needed
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.
Men Rivers Sound
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.
Missing Fantasy Willing
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.
Beautiful Father Able
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.
Teacher Perfect Enough
  • Born: December 23, 1902
  • Died: August 2, 1990
  • Occupation: Author
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