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Norman Maclean
“...the most sublime of oddballs, Leonardo da Vinci”
Norman Maclean

Norman Maclean
“For all of us, though, it is much easier to read the waters of tragedy. (64)”
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Norman Maclean
“Then he asked, “After you have finished your true stories sometime, why don't you make up a story and the people to go with it? “Only then will you understand what happened and why. “It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.” Now nearly all those I loved and did not understand when I was young are dead, but I still reach out to them.”
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Norman Maclean
“They were still so young they hadn't learned to count the odds and to sense they might owe the universe a tragedy.”
Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire

Norman Maclean
“Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn’t. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

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