Norman Maclean
Norman Maclean
Norman Fitzroy Macleanwas an American author and scholar noted for his books A River Runs Through It and Other Storiesand Young Men and Fire...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth23 December 1902
CountryUnited States of America
complete elude love luminous river runs sunrise
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. - A River Runs Through it
taken people feelings
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.
cases hardest behinds
The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.
teacher perfect enough
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.
believe hands rivers
I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the river the heat mirages danced with each other and then they danced through each other and then they joined hands and danced around each other. Eventually the water joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.
water
I am haunted by waters.
giving needs helping
Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.
idaho mountain world
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.
knowing forever way
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.
father sea fishing
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.
silence enemy silent
Slowly we became silent, and silence itself if an enemy to friendship.
book rivers stories
At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.
death young reach-out
Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.
lifetime asks
How can a question be answered that asks a lifetime of questions.