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
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.
sea fishing dry
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.
art father fishing
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.
fishing gone world
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.
fishing world fly-fishing
One great thing about fly fishing is that after a while nothing exists of the world but thoughts about fly fishing
fishing lines our-family
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.
fishing perfect waiting
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
art fishing grace
All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.
running fishing rivers
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
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.