The hardest thing usually to leave behind, as was the case now, can loosely be called the conscience.
("A River Runs Through It")
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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
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
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
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
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
Norman Maclean
We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.
Norman Maclean
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