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View Plans"If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman."
"You know more than that," my father said. "He was beautiful."
About Norman Maclean
Norman Fitzroy Maclean (December 23, 1902 – August 2, 1990) was an American author and scholar noted for his books A River Runs Through It and Other Stories (1976) and Young Men and Fire (1992).
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Additional quotes by Norman Maclean
I hope there are others also who don't mind trees.
Help,” he said, “is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.
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.